GE Power Launches New Innovations at CIGRE 2018 Including Revolutionary HVDC Control System
Product launches emphasize commitment to deliver innovative,
software-enabled solutions to help customers navigate the shifting
energy landscape
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Exciting product innovations to help customers meet evolving
challenges include eLuminaTM HVDC Control System, 72.5kV
compact Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS), new “Digital Twin” for Power
Transformers, Intelligent Digital Substations, Asset Lifecycle
Management Services and advanced Energy Management System (EMS) with
full Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS) enhancement
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New products will help improve grid utilization, increase access to
renewable energy sources, and improve reliability and efficiency
throughout the energy value chain for customers and citizens around
the world
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Through its Digital Energy portfolio of software solutions and
services, GE supports the transformation of energy networks
The role of the grid is experiencing a pivotal change. GE Power’s Grid
Solutions business (NYSE:GE) today unveiled product innovations at CIGRE
2018 to address customers’ needs to adapt to a more digitalized,
decentralized and decarbonized energy landscape.
In the past, a simpler grid model transmitted electricity from large
generation plants to end users. With carbon
dioxide levels the highest they have ever been in 800,000 years, a
modern grid is key to integrate renewable energy resources effectively
as they are forecasted to represent
two-thirds of global net electricity by 2050.
“The global energy landscape is undergoing a massive transformation. The
grid of the future will require smarter, faster and more interoperable
solutions to ensure resiliency, efficiency and security. That’s why our
Grid Solutions team is focused on investing in and delivering new
digital, automation and HVDC technologies to transform energy networks
across the globe. Our new product innovations will help our customers
not only navigate the ever-changing energy landscape, but also unleash
the full potential of electric grids worldwide,” said Reinaldo Garcia,
president and CEO of GE Power’s Grid Solutions business.
At this year’s CIGRE, GE Power’s Grid Solutions business launched the
following new products and services as part of their holistic approach
to grid modernization:
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eLuminaTM HVDC
Control System: Introducing the industry’s first HVDC
solution to implement a world-class digital measurement system fully
based on IEC 61850. eLumina delivers a 50 percent smaller footprint
and 80 percent reduction in field connections that simplifies system
architectures, improving maintenance and operational efficiency. With
10 times more computing power, eLumina brings more data to operators
to enable actionable intelligence through improved analytics and
situational awareness. This new powerful platform is designed around a
“single-source-of-truth” system model, enabling a more scalable,
flexible, interoperable and adaptive HVDC solution.
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F35
Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) with 72.5kV: By 2050,
66 percent of the world’s population will be living in urban
communities, requiring more power in compact areas. Simultaneously,
offshore wind is predicted to reach a cumulative capacity of 115 GW by
2030, and these wind farms are moving into deeper waters that
require larger turbines with higher power ratings. To address these
shifts, GE Power’s Grid Solutions business has launched a new compact
F35 Gas-Insulated Substation (GIS) for 72.5 kV networks. With a bay
volume reduced by 23 percent and a 30 percent reduction in SF6
mass this new GIS delivers reliable power to urban, industrial and
windfarm applications. For wind turbines and collection platforms
specifically, this enhanced design allows the power voltage
transformer to feed auxiliaries under “no wind” conditions, making it
the ideal interface for offshore wind applications.
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Modernizing the Grid through Digital Transformers, Intelligent
Digital Substations, Asset Lifecycle Management Services and advanced
EMS with full WAMS enhancement: As automation grows across the
energy industry, digital control systems will play a vital role in the
machines, grids and systems that deliver energy to the people and
places that need it most. With these devices in place, the grid of the
future will be able to recalibrate itself in real-time so that it can
balance demand and integrate multiple-generation resources reliably.
From the field to enterprise, GE Power’s Grid Solutions business has
created digitally connected solutions to increase efficiency and
reliability of the network and it’s connected assets, including:
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“Digital
Twin” for Power Transformers enables effective asset
performance management to extend asset life and maximize operational
performance. Advanced sensor technology with a digitalized secondary
system delivers condition-based data and statistic models to build a
software-enabled model of the transformer or even the entire
substation: the twin. This interactive model allows operators to move
from reactive to predictive maintenance solutions and improve system
efficiency.
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Intelligent
Digital Substations enable utility operators to maximize asset
and substation utilization up to 30 percent. Coupling powerful
visualization tools with the digitization of primary substation
equipment and secondary systems, operators can collect and analyze
critical data to proactively detect potential failures up to six
months in advance.
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Asset
Lifecycle Management Services include a comprehensive
portfolio of methods to collect distribution and transmission asset
health data through a set of proven analytics and consulting services.
These services are tailored to reduce failure rates by up to 50
percent, reduce maintenance costs by up to 25 percent and extend asset
life by up to 20 percent. By incorporating the use of data, these
end-to-end services optimize grid asset management strategies.
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Advanced
EMS with full WAMS enhancement provides the situational
awareness operators need to increase network utilization and stability
allowing more renewable integration and network automation.
With GE’s hundred plus years of domain expertise and the power of
digital integration, GE Power’s Grid Solutions business is playing a
critical role in boosting efficiency throughout the energy value chain
across the globe.
If you are attending CIGRE,
visit GE's stand #330 on the third floor of Palais des Congrès de
Paris, France and contact us for on-site interviews with our industry
experts. For daily updates, follow us at @GE_Power and the hashtag
#CIGRE47.
About GE:
GE (NYSE:GE) is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming
industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are
connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized around a global
exchange of knowledge, the "GE Store," through which each business
shares and accesses the same technology, markets, structure and
intellect. Each invention further fuels innovation and application
across our industrial sectors. With people, services, technology and
scale, GE delivers better outcomes for customers by speaking the
language of industry. http://www.ge.com/
About GE Power
GE Power is a world energy leader providing equipment, solutions and
services across the energy value chain from generation to
consumption. Operating in more than 180 countries, our technology
produces a third of the world’s electricity, equips 90 percent of power
transmission utilities worldwide, and our software manages more than
forty percent of the world’s energy. Through relentless innovation and
continuous partnership with our customers, we are developing the energy
technologies of the future and improving the power networks we depend on
today. For more information please visit www.ge.com/power,
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