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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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Improve Your Outcomes With Flexible Service Agreements

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 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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The Peace Of Mind Experience Delivers

reduce capex

Tailored Solutions
The service agreement exactly fits operator's O&M strategy. The customized solution is built from a unique selection of options.

reduce engineering work

Fixed-cost & Planned Outages
Costs are contractually guaranteed with the option for jobs to be planned out months in advance, during outages scheduled with the customer.

improved safety

Secured Mobilization
The mobilization time can be reduced up to 85%, providing required resources no matter the location.

remote commissioning

Increased Availability
The number of failures can be reduced up to 50%, limiting outage frequency and duration.

Reduced substation footprint

Outcome-based
Through outcome-based contracts associating APM and specialized supplier expertise, GE can commit on availability, reliability, or other custom-made performance metrics.

Tailor the Service Contract to Meet Desired Outcomes and Risk Profile

GE’s Grid Services partners with T&D operators and industrials to select only the support options they need. Our field experienced specialists will consider asset criticality, fleet size, location, in-house capabilities, system complexity and business profile to build with you the best partnership to achieve your goals.

Customized Service Package


PREVENTIVE
MAINTENANCE

CORRECTIVE
MAINTENANCE

LOCAL
OPERATION

STRATEGIC SPARE
PARTS MANAGEMENT
Avoid Failure
Repair Failure
Daily Inspection
Secure Supply Chain

24/7
HOTLINE

ASSET PERFORMANCE
MANAGEMENT

TECHNICAL
TRAINING

CYBERSECURITY
SOLUTIONS
Fast Response Time
Failure Prevention
Manage Knowledge
Enforce Compliance

GE can service HV/MV equipment from GE and others, reducing the complexity and cost of managing service agreements with multiple manufacturers. You'll work under one contract with a single service provider to help reduce administrative costs and speed up response time

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Discover the Flexibility

SELECT CUSTOMER APPLICATION REAL CASE
On-shore wind farms newly installed with four evacuation substations
State-owned thermal power generation company with limited in-house capabilities in HV equipment
Large T&D utility operating a highly complex systems including FACTS
Large T&D utility operating remote substations in a harsh environment
Airport installation with critical high-voltage equipment highly impacting their operations in case of failure
20-YEAR AGREMENT • Europe
Protection & Control Automation Circuit Breakers
Hotline & expert remote support (Office working hours)
Hotline & expert remote support (24/7)
Local technical support
Local operation
General / Routine maintenance
Scheduled maintenance coverage
Unscheduled maintenance
Strategic spare parts supply & management
Asset Performance Management (APM) software
Training
Cybersecurity
Performance Guarantee (Bonus / LDs)*
Response time
Reliability or/and availability
Outage duration (during maintenance)
* Upon conditions detailed in the contract
20-YEAR AGREEMENT • AFRICA
Air & Gas Insulated Switchgears Generator Circuit Breakers Power Transformers
Hotline & expert remote support (Office working hours)
Hotline & expert remote support (24/7)
Local technical support
Local operation  
General / Routine maintenance  
Scheduled maintenance coverage
Unscheduled maintenance coverage
Strategic spare parts supply & management
Asset Performance Management (APM) software  
Training
Cybersecurity
Performance Guarantee (Bonus / LDs)*
Response time
Reliability or/and availability  
Outage duration (during maintenance)
* Upon conditions detailed in the contract
10-YEAR AGREEMENT • NORTH AMERICA
Flexible AC Transmission Systems
Hotline & expert remote support (Office working hours)
Hotline & expert remote support (24/7)
Local technical support
Local operation  
General / Routine maintenance  
Scheduled maintenance coverage
Unscheduled maintenance coverage
Strategic spare parts supply & management
Digital Asset Performance Management (APM) software
Training
Cybersecurity
Performance Guarantee (Bonus / LDs)*
Response time
Reliability or/and availability
Outage duration (during maintenance)
* Upon conditions detailed in the contract
5-YEAR AGREEMENT • MIDDLE EAST
Gas-Insulated Substations Generator Circuit Breakers Power Transformers
Hotline & expert remote support (Office working hours)
Hotline & expert remote support (24/7)
Local technical support
Local operation
General / Routine maintenance  
Scheduled maintenance coverage
Unscheduled maintenance coverage
Strategic spare parts supply & management
Digital Asset Performance Management (APM) software
Training
Cybersecurity
Performance Guarantee (Bonus / LDs)*
Response time
Reliability or/and availability
Outage duration (during maintenance)
* Upon conditions detailed in the contract
2-YEAR AGREEMENT RENEWED FOR 10 YEARS • INDIA
Air-Insulated Substations Power Transformers Auxiliary Equipment
Hotline & expert remote support (Office working hours)
Hotline & expert remote support (24/7)
Local technical support
Local operation
General / Routine maintenance  
Scheduled maintenance coverage
Unscheduled maintenance coverage
Strategic spare parts supply & management
Digital Asset Performance Management (APM) software
Training
Cybersecurity
Performance Guarantee (Bonus / LDs)*
Response time
Reliability or/and availability
Outage duration (during maintenance)
* Upon conditions detailed in the contract

Guaranteed Outcomes

Through outcome-based contracts, GE can guarantee the performance and availability of the system in order to ensure long-term value. By offering substantial guarantees and risk sharing flexibility, GE customizes each agreement to operators’ substation needs and desired business outcomes.

  • Spare parts
    Spare Parts
    Availability & Cost
    Spare Parts Availability & Cost

    Components required to repair failed parts

  • Response time
    Response
    Time
    Response
    Time

    Remote expert availability

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    Labor Availability, Level & Cost
    Labor Availability, Level & Cost

    Resources required to perform repair works

  • Obsolescence Management
    Obsolescence
    Management
    Obsolescence
    Management

    Technology watch to maintain the supply chain to procure parts

Learn How Customers Already Achieve Their Outcomes

  • 24/7 support for a Flexible AC Transmission System Transmission utility site photo

    Transmission utility in US increased its substation performance level to 99,2%

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  • Offshore and onshore wind substations Offshore windfarm

    A wind farm owner optimized the performance of its HVDC systems

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  • Industrial substation operations & maintenance International aurport in India

    An international Indian airport secured the availability of its critical assets

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