Installation & Relocation
GE offers the assembly and disassembly services of GE and other OEM installations including:
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Full relocation services
- Rigging
- Transportation (rail, barge, truck)
- Installation
- ISO-phase modification
- Erection and commissioning
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Complete acceptance and commission testing including:
- Power factor measurement
- SFRA testing
- Engineering review
Asset Lifecycle Management Services
Optimize asset maintenance and replacement strategies with GE’s Asset Lifecycle Management services.
Site inspection
- Visual inspection, functional checks and electrical tests including infrared thermography
- Electrical tests including Power factor measurement, SFRA testing and engineering review
- Standard protocol for condition data collection with digital apps
- Data checks and firsthand diagnostics
- Internal inspections
- HV testing with mobile facilities
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- Dissolved gas analysis (DGA)
- Water content, breakdown voltage, acidity index, corrosive sulphur, PCB, inhibitor analysis, ageing markers: furans and methanol
- Oil analysis plan
Continuous online monitoring solutions Learn More
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Transformer retrofitting with monitoring devices and systems covering:
- Single- and multi-gas DGA for active part or tap changer (OLTC)
- Bushing, OLTC, cooling system and oil conservator monitoring
- Partial discharge, transient overvoltage sensors
- Expert consulting services for data analysis and alarm management
Added value services
- Flexible service agreements providing GE’s specialized expertise
- Transformer condition assessments, diagnostics and recommendations by GE experts
- Advanced diagnostics & prognostics models developed by our experts as part of our EnergyAPM solution
- Substation and transformer fleet digital management
- Comprehensive centralized asset monitoring
- Mobile workforce tools and processes
Maintenance & Repair

Digital Technology For Field Interventions
Maximizing the life cycle performance of transformers.
Maintenance
- Corrective and preventive maintenance
- End-of-life and decommissioning solutions
Repair & Mid-life overhaul
- Preliminary inspections and tests up to internal inspection (see detail in Asset Performance Management)
- Repair or replacement of defective or obsolete parts including bushings, small and main components, and accessories
- On load and no load tap changers inspection, repair or replacement
- Major repair or replacement of active part core components up to complete rewind – in repair workshop or at site with HV testing
- Treatment of corrosion points and oil leakages
- Oil processing, treatment and drying or replacement
- Complete regasketing
Spare parts management Brochure
- Spare parts for legacy and other transformers including tap changer components, bushings, Buchholz relays, pumps, motor fans, coolers, accessories and gaskets
- Strategic spare parts stock for critical, long lead or out-phased equipment
Oil Processing Services
- Oil testing and consultation
- Physical and chemical oil treatment: oil reclamation
- Oil reinhibiting and passivation
- Hot oil cleaning and drying
- Vacuum filling
- Oil degasification
Permanent hotline
- 24/7 technical support
- Guaranteed response time
- Escalation to technical experts
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Modernization & Upgrade
Leverage GE's technical expertise to provide custom engineered solutions.
Modernization
- Life-extension program
- Change obsolescence main components
Upgrade
- Cooling upgrade for power upgrade and life time extension
- Ratio and voltage regulation upgrade to new needs
- Oil preservation system upgrade for Rubber bag or Drycol
- Bushing upgrade for risks mitigation, safety improvement and new practices compliance and new technologies
- Thermal upgrade of winding insulation to increase rated power or life time