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High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) systems enable utilities to move more power further, efficiently integrate renewables, interconnect grids, and improve network performance. HVDC systems utilize power electronics technology to convert AC and DC voltage and are ideal for supporting existing systems or building new power highways.

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GE Vernova provides solutions that offer grid operators the ability to provide reactive power support, enhance controllability, improve stability and increase power transfer capability of AC transmission systems.

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GE Vernova's Grid Solutions' EBoP systems cater to all types of project requirements including supplying equipment, engineered packages, and full engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) implementations.

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GE Vernova offers solutions for a variety of substation projects and applications, including Modular Substation Automation Systems, utility and industrial substation projects, as well as DC substation solutions.

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The energy landscape today is changing, this is being led by the current industry trends of Decarbonization, Digitization, Decentralization and Electrification. Discover how GE Vernova is working with utility, consumer and industrial customers to design and deploy tailored Microgrid and Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Management solutions.

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GE Vernova offers a wide range of transformer solutions for the utility, industrial, commercial, residential and energy markets. These solutions feature flexible, reliable and robust designs to support a wide range of applications. With units operating in some of the most demanding electrical environments around the world, GE Vernova designs and delivers transformer solutions that provide among the highest level of performance and reliability to meet rigorous operating requirements.

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GE Vernova provides GIS solutions from 50 kV to 800 kV, along with secondary products to maximize switchgear and network operation. The portfolio includes a full range of SF6 GIS as well as g3 (SF6-free) GIS at 145 kV and 420 kV voltage levels for utilities and industries worldwide.

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GE Vernova is one of the top circuit breaker suppliers in the world. Our products include a range of live tank circuit breakers (up to 800 kV), dead tank circuit breakers (up to 550 kV), as well as hybrid and compact switchgear assemblies. We also provide solutions for power generation applications with our generator circuit breakers for installations up to 1,500 MW.

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GE Vernova is a global market leader for disconnectors (disconnect switches) since 1960, with 8 product facilities in 7 countries and hundreds of thousands installations in more than 130 countries around the world. The portfolio includes disconnectors for AC applications (up to 1,200 kV), for DC applications (up to 1,000 kV) and for railway applications. We also offer power connectors to connect two or more conductors for a continuous electrical path.

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GE Vernova is an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of high, medium and low voltage instrument transformers. With more than 100 years of experience, We offer a broad array of standard and high accuracy models for revenue metering and system protection applications. The portfolio of instrument transformers ranges from low voltage at 600 V suitable for industrial and high accuracy revenue metering, all the way up to high voltage at 1,200 kV. The portfolio also includes line traps and digital instrument transformers.

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For a century, utilities have relied on us to deliver electrical products and services to meet their quality, durability and performance needs. Our capacitor and reactor product lines are an integral part of our portfolio. We provide power capacitors that meet ANSI, IEEE and IEC standards, and our low voltage capacitors are UL listed. Ratings range from 1 kvar to 500 MVAR, and from 240 volts to 500 KV.

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GE Vernova provides a broad range of bushings and surge arresters to help protect electrical assets. The bushings portfolio includes AC and DC solutions that enable long life, high reliability and installation flexibility. GE’s Tranquell surge arresters are ideal for distribution and EHV applications up to 612kV, and are available as polymer and porcelain station and intermediate class IEEE/ANSI C62.11.

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SF6 (or Sulphur Hexafluoride) has been the standard gas used inside high voltage electrical equipment as an insulating and arc-quenching medium. However, SF6 is also listed as a potent greenhouse gas according to the Kyoto Protocol, with 24,300 times the comparative Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CO2 and a lifetime of 1,000 years in the atmosphere. With grid operators across the world becoming increasingly concerned about the environmental impact, GE Vernova offers a commercially available and viable alternative to SF6 to help utilities and industries reduce their environmental impact.

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GE Vernova offers a wide range of solutions to monitor and manage critical assets on the electrical grid, detect and diagnose issues and provide expert information and services to customers. Our asset monitoring and diagnostics portfolio includes solutions for single- and multi-gas transformer DGA, enhanced transformer solutions and switchgear monitoring, as well as software and services.

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GE Vernova's Grid Solutions business electrifies the world with advanced grid technologies and systems, enabling power transmission and distribution from the grid to homes, businesses, and industries effieciently and reliably.

The GridBeats™ portfolio is designed to streamline grid digitalization, improve grid resilience, and empower utilities to manage their networks remotely, particularly in the face of the energy transition.

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GE Vernova's Critical Infrastructure Communications solutions deliver comprehensive networks that are designed to be secure, flexible, and tailored to meet customers' objectives and unique geographic requirements.

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GE Vernova's comprehensive portfolio of solutions for implementing and managing a substation.

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The collection of required asset condition data from the field on a large scale for GE Vernova and 3rd party electrical equipment is a key step in building a robust Asset Performance Management strategy. Grid Services specialists are constantly evaluating and implementing new innovative inspection technologies applying strict processes and methods. The digital inspections methods are designed to improve the efficiency of data collection, oil analysis and online monitoring. All new approaches to capture data are integrated into the EnergyAPM ecosystem for automatic data transfer.

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Business environment is constantly transforming for substation owners but the need to deliver consistent outcomes remains. That’s where a Flexible Service Agreement can help. By partnering with GE Vernova on a long term, customers can realize the full potential of their electrical substations and network assets while balancing performance and investment, along with predictable costs and flexible billing arrangements, letting them get back to focusing on what matters.

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Energy costs are significant expenses for utilities and industries at large, particularly those that are energy-intensive or operate heavy machinery. Between 5% and 25%* of the expenses in these organizations are allocated to energy payments, with up to 15%** of this energy consumption being wasted during operations.

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GE’s innovative and high-quality services help maintain and optimize high-voltage electrical assets throughout their entire lifecycle. Leveraging the design and manufacturing knowledge of our engineers, the customized service solutions ensure substations and networks perform as planned. Experts deliver services for applications across the power system, keeping assets up-to-date, safe, reliable and efficient while improving customers’ return-on-investment.

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GE Vernova provides a full range of services & support tailored to meet a broad range of power system needs across utility and industrial applications. With deep domain knowledge and industry expertise GE’s service application engineers and technical specialists can help plan, design, operate, maintain, and modernize your protection, control, monitoring and automation systems.

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GE Vernova provides comprehensive services throughout the systems lifecycle. The services can be provided by our local team and with the support of our global Competence Centers when the equipment is installed, during the warranty period and beyond.

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Our technical experts are ready to equip customers with the knowledge needed to effectively manage their critical assets and systems, and increase their return on product investments. Our training courses are offered in a variety of ways, including online, onsite at customer locations, and in our state-of-the art training centers around the world.

GE Vernova provides a vast array of support and service offerings to help customers build, deploy, maintain and service their networks. Our highly skilled engineers and technicians provide front line support for customers across our product portfolio, including protection and control solutions, industrial communications networks, asset monitoring and diagnostics and software solutions.

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GE Vernova's Grid Solutions' Testing Laboratories enable manufacturers and end users to test their primary equipment by leveraging deep domain expertise and testing facilities, to develop enhanced high voltage products and certify their capabilities before market introductions.

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GE Vernova delivers materials and eco-design studies for high voltage solutions to accelerate insulation and environmental innovation. GE’s services provide the expertise and methods that enable new value to support customer engineering, sourcing, quality control and EHS activities.

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With the rapid digitalization of the grid, utility, power generation and industrial operators require cybersecurity solutions to monitor and protect grid asset and systems from increased severity and frequency of cyber attacks. GE Vernova adopted a “defense in depth” approach, providing innovative cybersecurity solutions designed to increase operational integrity, comply with regulations and control costs of security.

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Utilities today seek to create and connect new sources of power generation to meet growing global demand, while also managing grid reliability, costs and regulatory factors.

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Water is central not just to the economy, but to life. As a result, water treatment systems demand secure, dependable power to ensure process uptime. From the grid-connected substation to reliable electrical protection, control, and power quality metering, GE Vernova offers tailored solutions to keep critical plants operational and meet the unique needs of the water and wastewater industry.

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As power systems become increasingly interconnected and complex, utilities need solutions that optimize energy transmission and management while improving reliability.

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Data centers – and the information they store – are becoming increasingly integral to the way we live our lives every day. With rising demand also come rising costs. And more importantly, the information in these centers must remain secure while simultaneously accessible. We provide data centers with electrical infrastructure solutions from the input utility source to the IT server racks. This includes high-voltage switchgear and transformers, medium and low voltage electrical equipment, automatic transfer switches, switchboards, UPS systems, critical power PDUs, static transfer switches, and overhead busway. This chain of electrification products provides high quality and reliable products and services for the entire lifecycle of a data center.

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The oil and gas industry is evolving at a rate never seen before, facing shifting pricing levels, ever-changing regulatory requirements, and increased environmental consciousness. Through reliable, safe, and innovative solutions and a holistic service offering, GE Vernova can help the energy sector thrive in this changing reality.

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Modernizing and digitizing the distribution grid is imperative for utilities and customers to enhance power system stability and safety, while increasingly integrating distributed power and demand response.

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The industry is changing. Simultaneously, so are your utility’s needs. Operational effectiveness, power stability, and critical asset management are key priorities – whether in pulp and paper, steel, or data centers. GE’s holistic portfolio of products and services are designed with reliability, innovation, and sustainability at the forefront, helping you face the energy transition with ease.

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Mining companies require secure communications, efficient asset performance management, and dependable, innovative technology to protect their critical assets. GE Vernova offers a broad product portfolio to help you through each step of the mining process – safely and reliably.

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DGCM Field RTU - Legacy

Manufacturing for this product has been discontinued. As an alternative, please refer to the iBox.

The Multilin™ DGCM is a versatile Field RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) that can monitor and control a wide range of pole top, pad mount, and underground distribution assets. This compact solution is designed for easy installation on new equipment and retrofit on installed assets, making distribution modernization a cost-effective endeavor.

Key Benefits

Improve efficiency and reliability by integrating remote feeders into DMS/OMS/SCADA

Track non-technical losses with real-time energy monitoring

Receive early warning signs of asset failure and approaching capacity limits

Eliminate the need for fault passage indicators with built-in per-phase fault detection

 

Develop customized control schemes with an advanced logic engine and expandable I/O

Enhance fault location and load flow studies using sequence of event records & trending

Reduce setup and commissioning time with easy-to-use software tools

Use outdoors in harsh environments (-40° C to +65° C)

Applications    

Automate & control RMU/Pad Mounted Switchgear

Fault detection for Cables in Vaults

Load monitoring & theft identification at Consumer Substations, LV Systems

 

Identify overload for Pad Mount/Underground Transformer

Monitoring & Control for Pole Top Applications

End of Line Monitoring for optimizing Volt/Var schemes


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  Fault Detection
Effective fault isolation is a key feature for grid reliability. The Multilin DGCM provides early warning for downstream overcurrent and earth faults. It can be programmed to isolate a faulted segment, either independently or from the remote. The Multilin DGCM also offers control, monitoring and diagnostics in one integrated, efficient design.

Overcurrent Protection
Instantaneous and time overcurrent functions are available for phase, neutral and negative sequence currents. A variety of time curves are provided, including IEEE/ANSI, IEC A/B/C/long time inverse/short time inverse, definite time and user-programmable curves.

Cold Load Pickup
The Multilin DGCM can be programmed to block instantaneous overcurrent elements, and raise the pickup time of overcurrent elements, when a cold load condition is detected. The cold load condition is detected during the closing of the breaker on a feeder that has been de-energized for a long time. The feeder inrush and motor accelerating currents during breaker closing may be above some overcurrent protection settings.

Overvoltage (OV) Detection
The phase OV protection guards voltage sensitive feeder loads and circuits against sustained OV conditions. It generates alarms when the voltage exceeds the selected voltage level for the specified time delay.

Undervoltage (UV) Detection
The phase UV detection alerts utilities against sustained UV conditions. The UV detector generates an alarm when the voltage drops below the selected voltage level after a specified time delay.

Power Loss
The Multilin DGCM can detect a power loss condition in each phase of the power distribution line. Open/close commands are blocked, unless currents and voltages of each phase fall below minimum set values.
 
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Metering and Monitoring
 
The Multilin DGCM provides high accuracy metering and recording of all AC signals, measuring the following key parameters:
 
Basic Measurements
• Current: Ia, Ib, Ic, In
• Phase-to-phase and phase-to-ground voltages for bus and line: Van, Vbn, Vcn, Vbb, Vab, Vbc, Vca
• Active power (per-phase and total): Wa, Wb, Wc, W
• Reactive power (per-phase and total): VARa, VARb, VARc, VAR
• Total active, reactive and apparent energy: MWh, MVARh, MVAh
• Power factor (per-phase and total)
• Frequency

Power Quality Measurements
• Voltage sag/swell
• Current unbalance
• Demand: voltage, current, active power, apparent power, energy, temperature
• 2nd to 15th harmonic for current
• 2nd to 15th harmonic for voltage
• THD in 20% for current
• THD in 20% for voltage

Data management & diagnostics

Event Recorder

To enable more effective distribution, post fault analysis and troubleshooting, the Multilin DGCM provides an integrated event recorder and detailed diagnostic features. The event recorder offers:

• Storage for up to 1024 consecutive events

Trending and Data Logging

The Multilin DGCM provides a 200 channel RMS recorder for advanced disturbance diagnostic features.
 

The Multilin DGCM data logger helps in better understanding the analog channel behavior, by sampling at a selectable time interval rate of 1 to 60 minutes.

Event recorder & data logger

The Multilin DGCM event recorder enables users to analyze the sequence of events . Each event is stored with the event number, date, time and analog data of interest.

  Communications
 

The Multilin DGCM utilizes industry standard communications technologies, making it one of easiest and flexible controllers to use and integrate into new and existing SCADA or DMS infrastructures.

Multiple Protocol Support

Multiple communication ports and protocols allow for remote control and easy access to device and system information. All communication ports are capable of simultaneous communications.

Simultaneous industry standard protocols supported:
• DNP 3.0 – Serial and Ethernet
• Modbus Serial and Ethernet
• IEC 60870-5-104

Integrated Cellular

The Multilin DGCM’s integrated cellular modem eliminates the need for external wireless devices, which reduces infrastructure costs.

Several options for MDS™ radios when purchased with enclosure:
• MDS iNET-II
• MDS TransNet

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Software and Configuration

The EnerVista Suite is an industry-leading set of software programs that simplifies every aspect of using the Multilin DGCM. EnerVista provides the tools to monitor the status of the protected asset, maintain the controller and integrate information measured by the Multilin DGCM into SCADA or DMS monitoring systems.

EnerVista Launchpad

EnerVista Launchpad is a powerful software package that provides users with of the setup and support tools needed for configuring and maintaining GE’s Multilin products. The setup software within Launchpad allows the configuration of devices in real-time, by communicating via serial, Ethernet or modem connections, or offline, by creating device setting files to be sent to devices at a later time.

Setup with EnerVista software, which can reduce device setup and configuration time