Our engineering services team provides a wide range of capabilities to assist you with your power protection, substation automation, and monitoring and diagnostics challenges. We provide end-to-end solutions to support your project needs. From new installations to understanding the best way to upgrade an existing system, our engineering team has been trusted to analyze, design, and implement modern power systems with a broad range of engineering services that includes:
Our range of Engineering services includes but is not limited to:
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These services entail configuration of Grid Automation and third-party P&C devices as per agreed settings and functionality.
Settings can be determined by our calculation of settings and studies or can be supplied by the customer.
Under request, the files can also be uploaded into the customer devices and tested before shipping or installation. Additionally, functional testing for final settings can be tested and reported.
Communication capabilities of current relays are extensive and complex architecture networks are needed in existing substations.
Grid Automation experts can help to unleash communication capabilities within already installed devices, support customers in new deployments, or improve communications architecture and ensure efficient use of network traffic.
Our support can be as simple as helping to configure customer signal mappings, or complex IEC 61850 device integrations. Any protocol supported by our products can be managed.
The Grid Automation business offers the technical expertise to provide a reliable factory acceptance test, no matter if it is be carried out on our premises, or at third-party installations.
Before material delivery, our FAT support ensures functionality, quality, and integrity with our comprehensive checking process, guaranteeing that the equipment performs as expected under the testable range of foreseeable conditions.
GE Vernova's Busbar Differential System provides fast and secure low impedance bus protection for reconfigurable LV, HV, and EHV busbars. This integrated solution is comprised of engineering, design, assembly, wiring, testing, and commissioning support for protection, control, and automation applications.
Depending on the nature of the protection, we differentiate between three different types of busbar differential projects:
The B30, a member of the UR family, provides busbar protection for up to 16 feeders with six differential zones. Communication between the bay and central units is done using process bus (IEC 61850-9-2LE) or standard (IEC 61869) protocols, and offers a large, full color LCD display. It can also be used for centralized protection of MV substations requiring busbar, breaker fail, feeder phase/neutral/ground overcurrent, and under/overvoltage protection.
Comprehensive and scalable bus and breaker fail protection for LV, HV, and EHV busbars. The B90, a member of the UR family, supports multi-section busbars schemes of up to 24 feeders and six zones, and offers a large, full color LCD display.
Electrical processes are becoming more critical every day. Whether these processes are industrial or commercial, uninterrupted power supply is vital. In order to provide more reliable power supply, the power system can alternate sources to different bus bars. An Automatic Transfer Scheme (ATS) is the process of transferring the load of a busbar to another to ensure process continuity.
The ATS helps ensure the continuity of critical processes whose shutdown would result in unwanted economic and safety consequences. Transferring motor buses are specifically challenging due to the inertia forces and transients that exist in motors.
The Automatic Transfer and Restoration Scheme combines distributed protection, control, and ATS capabilities in a cost-effective package. Depending on your project-specific requirements for inputs/outputs, it can be performed on our SR850, F650, or P40x relays.
This configuration can be found in thermal power generating stations. The example shows a hard-wired solution.
This type of configuration is mainly used in industrial plants. The example shows a solution with GOOSE 61850 inter-relay communication.
The Main-Tie-Main configuration can be improved by adding an emergency generator that would operate in case of loss of power on both main sources. The example shows a solution with GOOSE 61850 inter-relay communications.
The transition to digital substations has emerged as a transformative approach to enhance operational efficiency, flexibility, and reliability. Digital substation standardization is a critical process that defines consistent protocols, interfaces, and architectures for the seamless integration of intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), communication systems, and control infrastructure. Digital substation standardization is essential for driving the adoption and implementation of advanced technologies in power system networks.
Our team possesses extensive expertise and experience in digital substation standardization, offering comprehensive solutions tailored to the unique needs of power system networks, including:
Challenge: Assure a new standard for digital substation design and provide new communications networks and architecture on digital substations.
Value Added Proposition: Design and implementation of standardized schematics for network architecture and communication signals exchange. .scd and .cid template file generation.
Benefits: A standardized solution for three typical topologies, making them more efficient on digital substation implementation. Closure of technology gap for customer employees.
Remedial Action Schemes (RAS) are a type of Wide-Area Protection Scheme, also known as Special Protection System (SPS) or System Integrity Protection Scheme (SIPS). RAS systems can detect disturbances in one part of an interconnected network that could result in interconnection overloading, under/over frequency conditions, and under/ overvoltage scenarios, and remediates these situations using pre-defined protection and control actions.
