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.
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.
Substation and Electrical Infrastructure Projects for Utility and Industrial Customers.
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.
Energy storage is the backbone of the modern power system, delivering reliable, high quality energy for utilities, data centers, industry, and communities. It unlocks the full potential of renewable and clean energy, ensuring critical operations stay continuously online in an always on economy while accelerating the electrification of everything.
Integrated electrical systems provide energy where the grid doesn’t reach, meeting increasing power demands while improving resilience and efficiency.
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.
GE Vernova delivers advanced power stability and flexibility solutions that help utilities and electro-intensive industries meet grid connection requirements and evolving regulatory standards. Our portfolio is designed to enhance grid performance, compliance, and resilience.
Innovations to Decarbonize the Electrical Grid. GRiDEA is our portfolio of decarbonization solutions that empower grid operators to address their net-zero objectives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Vernova’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.
Our SF₆-free switchgear range features the same ratings and same dimensional footprint as the state-of-the-art SF₆ equipment, with a drastically reduced carbon footprint.
Drawing on more than 125 years of engineering heritage, GE Vernova offers rotating machine solutions designed for performance, reliability, and industrial scale.
Digital Native Products are not just an evolution of existing switchgear but a transformation in how GE Vernova conceives and builds primary equipment for the grid.Digital Native Products are designed with digital capabilities embedded, enabling a compact and standard design and are mechanically engineered to reach the accuracy required by advanced monitoring and control solutions. Products are ready to connect and operate quickly and effectively. Discover the various monitoring and control solutions that can be incorporate in Digital Native Products.
GE Vernova delivers advanced power electronics solutions that help electrify industries, optimize performance, and improve reliability. Our integrated portfolio supports critical applications with the technology and services needed to power a more efficient and sustainable future.
Safely and securely accelerate operations with tailored automation systems that enhance control, reduce risk and add value.
GridBeats™ is a portfolio of software-defined automation solutions for grid digitalization. The portfolio is designed to enable utilities and industrial customers to ensure a stable, efficient energy supply amidst the growing integration of renewable energy sources and aging infrastructure.
GE Vernova's comprehensive portfolio of solutions for implementing and managing a substation.
GE Vernova’s Protection, Control, and Metering solutions deliver precise, high-performance automation for today’s evolving grid. From advanced relays to multifunction meters, our portfolio helps utilities enhance reliability, streamline operations, and accelerate the energy transition. Backed by decades of expertise and global reach, we provide the products to protect assets, optimize performance, and power a more sustainable future.
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.
GE Vernova's Critical Infrastructure Communications (CIC) solutions deliver secure, resilient, and scalable networks that ensure operational continuity in even the most demanding environments. We help customers reduce downtime, enhance safety, and improve situational awareness through end-to-end communication solutions built for reliability and performance. This translates into greater efficiency, regulatory compliance, and peace of mind for mission-critical operations.
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.
GE Vernova's Asset Lifecycle Management services combine a large set of methodologies to collect condition data off and online, consulting and asset optimization services using digital technology to improve the monitoring, recording and analysis of asset operations and predict asset behavior.
GE Vernova’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.
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 Vernova’s service application engineers and technical specialists can help plan, design, operate, maintain, and modernize your protection, control, monitoring and automation systems.
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.
Our certified laboratories enable manufacturers and customers leverage deep domain expertise and advanced testing and analysis facilities to develop enhanced high-voltage products, certify their capabilities before market introductions and apply preventive maintenance to avoid unexpected interruptions and ensure the reliability of your operations.
Our product range covers from the smallest medium voltage electrical rotating machines to custom made large units, up to 80 MW, as well as their operating and protection controls. Our aftermarket fleet of over 70,000 rotating machine assets, spread over 150 countries worldwide, that we’ve served for a century. Our experience in all energy, industry and transportation sectors is broad and deep.
We connect the physical world with data to proactively detect and forecast the behavior of your assets by offering Digital Suite, Service 360 & Cyber security.
Our MV drives portfolio ranges from 100 kW to more than 100 MW and from 3.8 up to 13.8 kV voltages. It allows for higher operating efficiency, power availability, plant throughput, operational precision, and process yield. Our LV drives portfolio ranges from of 0.25kW to more than 6MW and from 270 up to 900VAC voltages which includes fully and doubly fed wind converters, marinized drives, metal and mining drives, Cranes, test benches, meeting the needs of critical electrification systems.
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.
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.
As power systems become increasingly interconnected and complex, utilities need solutions that optimize energy transmission and management while improving reliability.
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.
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.
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.
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 Vernova’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.
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.
The Kelman DGA 900 PLUS is a member of the next generation of multi gas monitors. Built from the DGA 900 platform, the PLUS extends the monitoring capability beyond just DGA.
Knowledge of the condition of transformers is essential for all electrical networks and on-line monitoring of transformers is an increasingly vital component of successful asset management programs. The comprehensive information provided by the Kelman™ DGA 900 PLUS not only allows expensive failures to be avoided but enables asset capabilities to be maximized.
The Kelman DGA 900 PLUS builds on the standard 9 gas DGA and moisture capabilities of the DGA 900 by enabling the addition of extra sensors, electronic cards and firmware algorithms to expand its monitoring capabilities. Bushing monitoring, partial discharge detection, OLTC monitoring, transformer models are amongst the options available to offer an integrated system which delivers a more in-depth picture of the transformer’s overall condition and will monitor the root causes of most transformer failures.
Benefiting from over 15 years of multigas DGA vendor experience and over 15,000 devices in the field, the DGA 900 encapsulates learnings and improvements derived from its predecessors to bring improved performance, innovative new features, enhanced user experience and increased field reliability and robustness.
While on-line DGA is now widely accepted as the most effective method of assessing the condition of a transformer, it does not cover all the possible sources of issues. Subsystems like the tap changer, the cooling system or the bushings can generate their own problems if they are left unmonitored. The DGA 900 PLUS monitoring system integrates DGA measurement, additional sensors, analysis models and data handling features to address the majority of prevalent failure modes. This cost-effective package provides the condition assessment tools essential for the effective management and optimal utilization of this critical sub-station asset. It is most suited for monitoring large, mission critical transformers or compromised transformers with a view to extending their life and preventing any unexpected failure:
Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) and moisture measurements of insulating fluids are recognized as the most important tests for condition assessment of transformers. In previous years, multi-gas DGA was traditionally confined to a laboratory environment, with infrequent yearly off-line manual sampling aiding time-based maintenance strategies.
However, as the global average age of transformers continued to rise, the possibility of rapid aging and even catastrophic failure between off-line tests also increased, leading many asset owners to adopt on-line DGA monitoring to provides remote alert and multi-gas diagnostic of deteriorating transformer condition.
This facilitated operational decisions without needing to go to site for manual oil sampling. It avoided unplanned outages, increased network reliability and enabled the move to condition-based maintenance.
In the early 2000’s, GE Vernova’s original Kelman™ range of on-line multi-gas DGA analyzers brought Photo-Acoustic Spectroscopy (PAS) measurement technology to the market. GE Vernova is now proud to introduce the Kelman DGA 900, its next-generation multi-gas on-line DGA and moisture analyzer. At its heart lies an evolved implementation of GE Vernova’s proven PAS technology, providing laboratory challenging levels of precision and repeatability with no consumables (carrier or calibration gases) and no need for frequent re-calibration. It also has enhanced computing power and scalable I/Os for future proofing and adding functionalities to grow each analyzer into a flexible transformer monitoring solution.
Transformer issues can now be detected in their infancy, making sure that they are fixed early so that the nominal expected life of the transformer can be achieved. Maintenance interventions can now be planned, reducing their length and their cost and causing less disruption to the network and customers. In addition, aging asset replacement strategies can be anchored on hard health condition data and not purely based on the age of the transformer.
Kelman DGA 900 PLUS further incorporates on-board calculations based on the very latest IEC®/ IEEE® thermal and moisture models standards and computed from the specific transformer characteristics obtained from the name-plate and test reports of the transformer.
The integrated Kelman DGA 900 PLUS comes with optional Input/Output (I/O) cards so that additional sensors can be attached to increase its measurement scope. With this add-on, the DGA 900 can continuously measures other critical parameters such as oil temperatures, load current, water content in oil, and cooling status which are complementary to the DGA information.
These models convert raw data into additional intelligent information to monitor the state of the transformer’s insulating system every 10 minutes and determine its long term aging profile. This information can also assist system operators in making critical operational decisions, particularly when it comes to safely overloading aging transformers by calculating the dynamic loading capacity. The aim of all the models is to aid in optimizing the transformer’s life (which is dictated by the state of its insulating system) and in deriving the optimum operating profile to maximize operational effectiveness.
On-Line Tap Changers (OLTCs) are complex mechanical devices with moving parts that wear over time due to the current they switch (contact wear) and the number of switches they perform (mechanical wear). An OLTC can operate many times a day, switching thousands of amps on each switch and sometimes over-using a limited set of contacts. This repeated use means that OLTCs require careful attention through inspection, replacement and refurbishment.
By monitoring the current position, the number of switching operations by position and the cumulated switched current load by position, an estimation of the contact wear can be obtained. In addition, the current consumption of the OLTC drive motor can be used to detect an increased difficulty in switching positions.
Finally, coking of the contacts will lead to increased arcing, to an elevated oil temperature in the OLTC compartment and thus can be detected by an oil temperature delta to the main tank. By monitoring these additional parameters, Condition Based Maintenance can be used on this key electro-mechanical component and an OLTC failure can be avoided, along with its usually not insignificant ensuing disruptions.
Bushing failures account for a large proportion of substation events that result in severe and costly damages and unfortunately even sometimes fatalities. Preventive maintenance, early bushing replacement and regular off-line testing have been employed to address this issue in the past. Monitoring transformer bushings is critical because bushings are constantly under high stress due to the line voltage and heat effect of the current flow. These stresses can be further aggravated by the presence of micro cracks from manufacturing, loss of mechanical strength due to aging, repeated thermal cycling (load + sun), pollution and external flashover eroding the porcelain, sludge and moisture in the insulating oil, and by the fact that new bushings have been made closer to design limits in order to reduce cost, size and weight.
The Kelman DGA 900 PLUS with bushing monitoring is an integrated on-line system that continuously monitors the condition of up to 6 bushings (3x HV and 3x LV). It uses custom bushing adapters (specifically designed for each bushing type).
It continuously measures the change in Capacitance C1 compared to the original nameplate value. It also measures the relative Power Factor (Tan Delta) change compared to the original nameplate value. If the reference voltage from a voltage transformer (phase to ground) information is available, then the real PF induced by the bushing can be calculated and displayed. This provides information similar to that obtained during off-line tests.
PD is a localized breakdown of a small portion of a solid or fluid electrical insulation system that is under high voltage stress, which does not completely bridge the space between two conductors. PD on solid dielectrics results in localized gradual erosion of the insulation system that eventually leads to failure of critical insulation.
Using the same bushing adaptors, the DGA 900 PLUS offers the added advantage of measuring high frequency signals in order to monitor PD activity, giving an added level of protection for the main tank of the transformer. The amplitude of the PD pulses are recorded and used to calculate an overall measure of PD activity. Several methods are used to discriminate between internal PD and external noise (corona discharge). The BMT 330 also provides Partial Discharge Phase Resolve (PDPR) diagnostics.
Graphical Visualisation of the monitoring data generated using the backend analytical engine, provides clear diagnostic trends.
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