GE Vernova Consortium Awarded Contract to Build State-of-the-Art HVDC System for RWE’s Sofia Offshore Wind Farm

  • GE Vernova Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Marine awarded the full contract for the high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system
  • Once operational, the Sofia offshore wind farm will be able to generate enough renewable energy to meet the electricity needs of almost 1.2 million average UK homes

Paris, FRANCE – March 29, 2021 — A specially formed consortium of 

GE Vernova awarded world’s first three-year g3-circuit-breaker framework contract by SP Energy Networks

  • “High Voltage (HV) Main Plant” agreement will cover the majority of SP Energy Networks’ requirements for 145 kV SF6-free live tank circuit-breakers over the UK’s RIIO-T2 regulatory period
  • GE Vernova’s g3 products are part of the solution to eliminate SF6 from UK’s grid
  • Climate change targets in discussion at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) hosted last month in Glasgow, Scotland

Paris, FRANCE – December 1

EU affirms confidence in GE Vernova’s g³ technology by co-funding development of its 245 kV SF₆-free g³ gas-insulated substation

  • EU’s LIFE program recognizes potential of GE Vernova Renewable Energy’s g3 insulating and switching gas as an alternative to sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) to help significantly cut global greenhouse gas emissions
  • This is the third GE Vernova g3 gas product development to be co-funded by the EU Commission within four years
  • New 245 kV g3 gas-insulated substation (GIS) for both onshore and offshore application will complete GE Vernova’s SF6-free GIS range particula

EnergyAPM - Optimizing transmission and distribution equipment with Asset Performance Management

GE Vernova’s Grid Solution launches EnergyAPM, a data analytics software, specially designed for Power Transmission and Distribution assets providing an Asset Performance Management portfolio of applications and services.

EnergyAPM combines asset data with industry expertise, analytics and connectivity, helping operators to develop an intelligent performance strategy for managing electrical substations.

Celebrating a Century of Innovation at GE Vernova’s Bushing Factory in Italy

On May 12, 2023, GE Vernova’s bushing factory known as Passoni & Villa celebrated 100 years of innovation! For more than a century, the factory has been recognized for its excellence, quality, and its team’s expertise in high voltage equipment. The bushings manufactured onsite support AC and DC transformers, substations, and generator applications worldwide, having equipped DC projects such as the Italy-Montenegro Link, the DolWin 3 project in North Europe, and the Lower Churchill Project in Canada.

Successful sail-away and installation of GE Vernova’s electrical substation for France’s Saint Nazaire offshore wind farm

Major milestone achieved! The first electrical offshore substation (OSS) in France successfully sailed away from St Nazaire in France and was installed on its jacket 12 km from the coast, on August 18th. The sheer size of this electrical substation is impressive - with its total weight approximately equivalent to the London Eye, (also known as the London Millennium Wheel), or about 280 adult African elephants - imagine that!

GE Vernova wins multiple orders of high-voltage power transformers and reactors from India’s largest transmission utility

  • GE Vernova wins multiple orders of 765 kV transformers and reactors from Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL)
  • GE Vernova will produce 45 units of 765 kV transformers and reactors for the new substations to be set up in the Indian state of Rajasthan by PGCIL, for evacuating 8.1 gigawatt (GW) of green power from the state’s solar energy zones
  • The project’s transformers and reactors will be supplied by GE Vernova's Grid Solutions’ state-of-the-art power transformer manufacturing facility in Vadodara, India

New Delhi, India and Paris, France,

GE Vernova’s Grid Power Electronics Technologies Solve Complex Challenges for Customers Worldwide

  • GE Vernova spotlights four major FACTS (Flexible AC Transmission Systems) power electronics project wins for customers around the globe
  • GE Vernova demonstrates ongoing role as an industry leader in STATCOM and Static Var Compensator (SVC) technology with key wins in South America, the United Kingdom and the Middle East
  • These wins reinforce our customers’ confidence in GE Vernova’s Reactive Power Compensation technologies and our execution capability to deliver complex projects within the context of the energy tr

GE Vernova’s Grid Automation team delivers on schedule the energization of Ia Le 1 substation in Vietnam

GE Vernova’s Grid Solutions’ Grid Automation division together with Advance Information Technologies (AIT) Corporation - an EPC contractor and system integrator for Grid Automation solutions in Vietnam - has successfully energized the Ia Le 1 substation in Gia Lai province in Vietnam, sticking to a tight 12-month schedule, even during the COVID-19 pandemic.