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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, We design 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. GE Vernova provides 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, we offer 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.

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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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Line Protection

GE's transmission protection solutions deliver the speed and security necessary for advanced transmission line protection. Our specialized technology teams are well versed in transmission protection theory and build protection and control solutions that can be configured to meet a variety of applications from large to small, underground and overhead.

Restoring service to urban areas quickly requires fast and accurate fault location. Maintenance crews rely on the advanced functions of the Multilin L90 line current differential system to rapidly pinpoint the fault location.
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MiCOM P543/4/5/6 Agile

P54 MiCOM 5th Generation The P54, part of the MiCOM P40 Agile 5th Generation family, delivers high performance processing and a graphical HMI as standard. A cost-effective range of transmission/sub-transmission class protection relays providing comprehensive line differential protection for up-to 3 line ends, with in-built subcycle transmission class distance and directional earth fault protection. This range of products is ideal for HV, EHV and UHV applications on lines and cables for 1 or 2 breaker applications with patented adaptive auto-reclose functionality.

MiCOM P543/4/5/6 Agile

MiCOM P543/5/6 Agile The P543, P545 & P546 models, part of the MiCOM P40 Agile family of protection relays, constitute a cost effective range of transmission-class protection relays providing comprehensive line differential protection for 2 or 3 line ends, subcycle distance and directional earth fault protection. This range of products is ideal for HV, EHV and UHV applications on lines and cables of any length for 1 or 2 CB applications with neutral differential for high impedance faults.

Multilin UR protection and control relay platform

Multilin L90 The L90, a member of the UR family of protection relays, is a transmission-class protection relay providing comprehensive line differential protection for 2 or 3 line ends, subcycle distance and directional earth fault protection. It is ideal for HV, EHV and UHV applications on lines and cables of any length for 1 or 2 CB applications. It offers a large color LCD display and integrated PMU.

Line Differential with Distance - Distribution
MiCOM P54A/B/C/E Agile

MiCOM P54 A/B/C/E Agile The P54A/B/C/E models, part of the MiCOM P40 Agile family of protection relays, provides cost effective high speed multi-ended line differential protection for overhead line and cables up to 6 ends. The P54C and P54E support a high density of binary inputs/outputs, while the P54A and P54B offer compact line differential protection in a half-rack case.

Distance Protection
MiCOM P443, P446 Agile

P44 MiCOMho 5th Generation The P44, part of the MiCOM P40 Agile 5th Generation family, delivers high performance processing and a graphical HMI as standard. A range of transmission/sub-transmission class protection relays providing up to 9 zones of subcycle distance protection with both mho/quad characteristics and delta directional comparison (incremental) protection. In addition, distance phase preference tripping logic and transient earth fault detection (TEFD) for Petersen coil earthed and isolated systems. The P44 range of products is ideal for HV, EHV and UHV applications on lines and cables for 1 or 2 breaker applications with patented adaptive auto-reclose functionality.

MiCOM P443, P446 Agile

MiCOM P443, P446 Agile The P443 and P446 models, part of the MiCOM P40 Agile family of protection relays, constitute a range of transmission-class protection relays that provide subcycle, 6 to 9 zone, distance protection with mho/quad characteristics, delta directional comparison (incremental) protection and “Virtual current polarising” of Directional Earth/Ground Fault (DEF) and settings free PSB for 1 or 2 CBs.

MiCOM P441, P442, P444 Agile

MiCOM P444 AgileThe P444 model, part of the MiCOM P40 Agile family of protection relays, is a numerical distance relay that provides flexible, fast and reliable protection of transmission and sub-transmission lines. It includes full scheme 5-zone distance protection with quad characteristics, plus directional earth fault (DEF) for single breaker applications

Multilin UR protection and control relay platform

Multilin D60 The D60, a member of the UR family of protection relays, offers transmission-class protection that provides subcycle, 6 zone, distance protection with mho/quad characteristics and Directional Earth/Ground Fault (DEF) for 1 or 2 CBs. It offers a large color LCD display and integrated PMU.

Railway Catenary
MiCOM P44T Agile

MiCOM P44T Agile The P44T provides protection for railway catenary lines, supplementing a 5 zone distance main protection are a host of backup protection, thermal protection, recording, control, measurement and monitoring features. Wrong phase coupling, panto flash over, train startup and Delta I for high impedance faults protection are also included. With independently settable right and left hand side resistive reaches for each zone the P44T suits routes hosting regenerative braking trains. Protection of classic or auto transformer-fed catenaries in systems with nominal frequencies of 50 or 60 Hz.

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Multilin UR protection and control relay platform

Multilin L30 Current differential protection for sub-transmission and MV lines and cables. Part of the UR family of relays. Includes voltage based protection, metering and check synchronizing. It offers a large color LCD display, PMU and advanced Ethernet communications with IEC 61850 station and process bus.

Multilin UR protection and control relay platform

Multilin L60 The L60, a member of the UR family of protection relays, provides comprehensive phase comparison line protection including 3 zone distance protection. It offers a large color LCD display.

Multilin UR protection and control relay platform

Multilin D30 5 zone distance protection with quad/mho characteristics for 3 pole tripping and autoreclose. Part of the UR family. Primary protection for sub-transmission lines, backup protection for MV to EHV lines. It offers a large color LCD display and integrated PMU.

Multilin UR protection and control relay platform

Multilin C70 The C70 provides both the bank and system protection schemes for shunt capacitor banks. The current and voltage-based protection functions provide sensitive protection for grounded, ungrounded single, and parallel capacitor banks and banks with taps.

Accessories
MiCOM P59x Agile

MiCOM P59x Agile This range of standalone units enables the MiCOM Agile P54x current differential relays and MiCOM relays with InterMiCOM64 inter relay communications to be connected to remote pulse code modulation (PCM) multiplexing equipment.

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