Julie Buard always had a knack for mathematics and physics, but it was the human aspects of STEM that fully engaged her and sent her on a path to machine learning and energy.

Celebrated annually, International Women's Day commemorates the cultural, political, and socioeconomic achievements of women. GE Vernova's Grid Solutions is fortunate to have women across the world who contribute to the success of our company as well the development of their own communities. Today, we proudly profile five GE Vernova's Grid Solutions engineers who have built successful STEM careers and are focused on helping to electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition.

In a world with increasing renewable energy, transmission operators face increased challenges with network interconnections. GE Vernova’s GridNode Interconnection Protection delivers SIPS based protection solutions to help solve these challenges.

For a Transmission utility and its operators of interconnected networks the loss of a major transmission line or a load in the network, which can mean instability and reliability issues caused by overvoltage, overfrequency, or overloads within the two networks.

April 12, 2021 - RUSSIA, Irkutsk Oblast, Taishet – GE Vernova’s Grid Solutions announced the successful completion of the installation, testing and energization of GE Vernova’s integrated grid equipment at the Taishet Aluminum Smelter in Siberia, Russia. RUSAL, the world’s largest aluminum producer, is now preparing the smelter for launch in Irkutsk Oblast in 2021.

GE Vernova Renewable Energy's Grid Solutions business was recently awarded its largest ever grid modernization services contract in Latin America by Companhia Hidro Elétrica do São Francisco (Chesf), one of Brazil’s largest electric utility companies. GE Vernova will retrofit six of Chesf substations located in the states of Alagoas, Bahia and Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil with its latest state-of-the-art grid technologies.

The energy transition towards sustainable and renewable energy sources is accelerating worldwide. At GE Vernova’s Grid Solutions, concern for the environment is at the core of everything we do. Our aim is to help our customers reduce their energy-related greenhouse gas emissions through various methods of decarbonization.

• Focusing on four of the biggest challenges facing the grid, specifically modernization, decarbonization, digitization and electrification, GE Vernova Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business spotlights its holistic approach to building the grid of the future at this year’s CIGRE
• Combining advanced hardware with software and services, GE Vernova emphasizes its commitment to deliver innovative solutions that help customers modernize the grid and accelerate the energy transition
• For the first time in more than 10

• 100MVA flexible transformer has begun a 6-month field demonstration at a Cooperative Energy substation in Mississippi as part of a project through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity
• Represents next generation of hardware required to support higher penetrations of renewable power on the grid
• Will improve grid resiliency by offering more flexibility for fault management, frequency and voltage regulation through an online adjustable impedance
• Poised to replace an aging U.S.

Colombian energy company Enel-Codensa recently announced that Colombia's first digital substation has started operations using our GE Vernova’s Grid Solutions’ equipment. The digital substation enables autonomous decisions and facilitates the operation of energy transmission.

• GE Vernova has been awarded a contract for Sweden´s first SF₆ free 145 kV gas-insulated switchgear (GIS)
• g³ switchgear will be installed at the Vattenfall Eldistribution AB Lindhov substation in Tumba
• 25 leading electrical utilities have already adopted GE Vernova’s g³ products for their high voltage networks, avoiding the addition of more than a million tons of CO₂ equivalent to the grid

Paris, FRANCE and Västerås, SWEDEN – Septembe