GE Energy Management

GE’s electrification and

automation business
MODERNIZING THE GRID
FROM THE POWER PLANT TO THE POWER CONSUMER
Who We Are
Digital Energy, a division of GE Energy Management, is a global
leader in providing solutions that modernize the grid – managing
and moving power from the power plant to the consumer.

For over 100+ years, Digital Energy has led in the
development, design, manufacturing and installation
of a broad range of integrated hardware and software
solutions for utilities and energy intensive power users
including oil and gas, petrochemical, mining, metals,
water, critical infrastructure and telecommunication
companies.
Built on interoperable designs, industry standards
and deep domain knowledge, Digital Energy products
help to maximize the efficiency, reliability and security
of our customer’s electrical infrastructures. From
protecting and optimizing assets such as generators,
transmission lines and motors, to delivering analytic
tools to help manage the power grid, Digital Energy
delivers industry-leading technologies to solve the
unique challenges of each customer.

www.GEDigitalEnergy.com
Digital Energy

POWER GENERATION TRANSMISSION DISTRIBUTION

• Electrical Balance of Plant (EBoP)
• Generation optimization
• Renewable integration
• Microgrids
• Protection & M&D
• High voltage primary equipment
• Substation digitization
• Advanced grid analytics
• Grid protection & control
• Wide area monitoring
• Grid diagnostics & visualization
• Protection & control
• Monitoring & Diagnostics (M&D)
• Fault detection & restoration
• Distribution automation
Modernizing the Grid from the Power Plant to the Power Consumer

COMMERCIAL OIL & GAS MINING

• Metering and PQ Monitoring • Transformers and M&D • Protection & control

• Protection & control • Protection & control • Load shedding
• Load shedding • Load shedding • Energy Management
• Energy Management • Energy Management • Industrial Wireless
• Industrial Wireless • Industrial Wireless • Transformers and M&D
GENERATION
Optimize Traditional & Renewable
Challenge
Globally by 2025, it is estimated that utilities will need to connect 2200 GW of new
generation to electric grids. This is required to support the growing global population,
specifically in emerging markets, coupled with global mandates and legislation
required to reduce CO2 emissions from power generation sources.

Solution
GE provides a versatile and robust range of solutions for connecting and evacuating
power from generation sources onto the grid, ensuring utilities have the tools
needed to support the increase in demand quickly, safely and efficiently. Ensuring a
continuous supply of power, GE offers Electrical Balance of Plant (EBoP), smart controls
and sensors and communication networking solutions for distributed, renewable, and
thermal power plants and microgrid applications.
Grid Challenge Evacuating Power to the Grid

by 2025, utilities must CONNECT

2400
GW of new Generation
to meet INCREASING GLOBAL DEMAND

78% increase in electricity demand 2 billion people have no access 25% of New Generation globally will come from
by 2040 to electricity renewables by 2018
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GE Solution Electrical Balance of Plant

1500
GE has designed and delivered over

ON-TIME & ON-BUDGET

power evacuation solutions

50% 1.2M FAST

UP TO

$
faster implementation in accelerated revenue return on investment with
with custom substations with packaged substations thermal power solutions

EXPLORE & INTERACT

Grid Challenge Generator Faults & Failures

Generator Faults or failures

CAN COST utilities

$1.3M
IN LOST REVENUE
+
for every month offline

An average 50 MW Generator takes 40% of faults can be attributed to issues 56% of failures can be attributed to insulation
more than 6 months to commission with a generator’s stator or rotor degradation from aging and wear

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GE Solution Generator Management

Reduce revenue losses and

equipment damage by up to

60%
with GE’s Generator Protection Solutions

100 % coverage of the stator winding

PROTECTING THE GENERATOR
from severe damage
Fast, reliable ground fault
PROTECTION in less than 30ms Field fault location
DETECTION within 5
% of field ground
resistance

EXPLORE & INTERACT

TRANSMISSION
Protecting & Utilizing Critical Assets
Challenge
Power systems are interconnected, highly complex networks that are susceptible to
instabilities. Transformers, the heart of the aging power system, currently average an
in-service life of over 40 years. Expertise to manage the grid is rapidly diminishing due
to the retirement of skilled, technical workers. Additionally, Utilities are being asked to
increase grid efficiency & resiliency without investing in new capital equipment, while
also supporting the integration of renewables. Overall, Utilities are under intense
scrutiny by both regulatory agencies and the public, to prevent the catastrophic power
system failures that have occurred over the last decades.

Solution
GE offers utilities advanced solutions to improve grid stability, support the latest cyber-
security tools, and increase the efficiency of transmission networks, including reactive
power solutions that cost effectively increase power transfer capabilities of existing
infrastructure and self healing systems that detect instabilities and automatically
reconfigure and restore networks in real time.
Grid Challenge Increasing Demands on Transmission

750
of worldwide coal-fired
GW
capacity retiring by 2030

Utilities need to maximize efficiency

& stability of the grid to compensate

25% of New Generation globally $1.6T+ invested globally in 2013 to 27 GW of U.S. coal fired to 72 GW is enough to reliably
will come from renewables by 2018 provide consumers with energy retire over next 5 years power 44.7 million homes

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GE Solution Maximize Grid Stability and Capacity

+
10,000 MVArs
OF COMPENSATION DELIVERED
in the last 3 YEARS
by GE FACTs Solutions

99 % of GE FACTs solutions were

ON-TIME & ON-BUDGET 200+ Synchronous Condenser
INSTALLATIONS WORLDWIDE 0.3ms triggered air gap minimizes
Series Compensation MOV COSTS

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Grid Challenge Large Scale Blackouts

Wide-area blackouts have affected

1.3
BILLION
people globally
due to improper coordination
of interconnected grids

700M people left without 2.7M people across 0.13 Hz oscillations caused 55M people impacted by a
power across 20 Indian California and Arizona lost instability between Turkey & cascading transmission line
states in 2012 power in 2012 W. Europe interconnected grids failure from Switzerland to Italy

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GE Solution Wide Area Monitoring & Integrity Protection

23ms
GE’s Interconnected Grid Solutions provide

RESPONSE TIME
minimizing geographic outage extent

80 % reduction in
3ms 100K
Improved
Wide area communications grid visibility synchrophasor
SYNCHROPHASOR
WITH SWITCHING TIME LESS THAN values/sec
monitoring costs with up to

EXPLORE & INTERACT

DISTRIBUTION
Improved Reliability & Efficiency
Challenge
More than 10% of power is lost from the distribution system due to inefficiencies,
reducing system reliability and costing utilities millions in lost revenue. Additionally,
utilities need to manage the complexities of new renewable energy usage, the
regulatory requirements to reduce SAIDI /CAIDI, and the challenges of scarce CAPEX
to update an aging infrastructure with disparate and outdated systems.

Solution
GE’s broad range of distribution solutions provides greater visualization, control and
automation for centralized and decentralized applications. Advanced analytical tools
& distribution automation solutions are all connected by a secure communications
network to provide the management and controls needed to minimize downtime
through improved power system efficiency and reliability.
T&D Challenge Restoring Power Quickly

Damage & losses from severe weather

200
costs the global economy an annual

$
BILLION
Hurricanes, thunderstorms & blizzards Super storm Sandy caused $65B in damage In Germany, a one hour power outage
account for 58% of power outages in the US affecting 8.1M people costs the economy an estimated $600M

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GE Solution Outage Restoration Management

30%
GE’s Outage Restoration Tools Enable

Reduction in Storm Response Costs

5x 10 x 30 -60
Faster Work Completion Improvement in stakeholder % % Accuracy Improvement
with 100% Electronic Engagement & in the Estimated Time
Assessments Communications to Restoration (ETR)

EXPLORE & INTERACT

Grid Challenge Aging Assets

Failure of distribution transformers

3M
can cost utilities up to

$ BUSHING FAILURE

Per event from equipment damage

& wide scale, extended blackouts

INTERNAL SHORT CIRCUIT

DISSOLVED GASES

52% of transformer failures are

caused by insulation degradation and Replacing a power transformer could result Over 50% of power transformers in
electrical abnormalities due to aging in up to 12 months of downtime developed countries are over 40 years old

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GE Solution Fleet Management

Identify Electrical & Chemical issues up to

6 Months
In Advance, Reducing
Equipment Damage & Downtime Costs

50 500 % less time to gather,

1
% fewer truck rolls using Cycle Operating Time reducing
analyze & interpret the severity of damage under
online DGA solutions transformer data fault conditions

EXPLORE & INTERACT

COMMERCIAL
Increase Billing Accuracy & Revenue
Challenge
North American utilities lose an average of $495M annually due to inaccurate power
measurements. This is due in large part to inaccurate billing caused by the inability
of sensors and meters to accurately measure across the entire load road, especially
during low load conditions.

Solution
GE’s has designed a range of reliable technologies to address these critical issues
including high accuracy meters that provide high-speed power quality monitoring
and accurate measurements, low-voltage transformer solutions that maximize billing
revenue and reduces inventory requirements, and easy-to-use software that enables
simpler and faster configuration and deployment.
Grid Challenge Inaccurate Revenue Billing

UTILITIES LOSE
an average of

$495M
ANNUALLY
due to inaccurate power
measurements

4MkWh in losses, reported by U.S. utility due to inaccurate Up to $6.6B of electricity is pirated in North America annually
meters & oversized transformers

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GE Solution Accurate Metering and Power Sensing

7x
GE’s RevenueSense CT’s are up to

MORE ACCURATE,
for maximum billing accuracy

UP TO
90
% reduced instrument transformer inventory
resulting in decreased operating costs 0.2 % ACCURACY CLASS providing best-in-class
metering for stronger theft protection

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OIL & GAS
Maximize Critical Process Uptime
Challenge
Across their upstream, midstream and downstream operations, the oil and gas
industry are heavy power users with expansive sites that utilize expensive, mission
critical field assets that must run continuously. Increasing productivity and reducing
outages are all critical to reducing downtime and the millions of dollars a day that oil
and gas companies lose as a result.

Solution
GE provides a broad range of solutions from visualization and advanced analytics
tools, industrially hardened protection and wireless networking devices, fast load
shedding and monitoring and control solutions. These products maximize production
uptime and ensure delivery processes for electrical infrastructure and critical assets
are met.
Grid Challenge Unplanned Process Downtime

Unplanned Outages

1.1M
from motor failure can cost a refinery up to

$
in lost revenue for every hour offline

70% of all energy consumption 65% of refinery shutdowns are Average annual costs for a mid-size Unscheduled shutdowns cost the
in oil refineries is associated with caused by mechanical breakdowns LNG Facility due to unscheduled global process industry 5% of total
Motor driven equipment or electrical disruptions downtime is $150M production annually, equating to $20B

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GE Solution Advanced Protection & Monitoring

GE’s Advanced Motor Management Solutions Provide

Real-Time
Motor Management
enabling operators to avoid costly, unplanned downtime

100 4M PROVEN
1 more start $ in revenue from true thermal model
OVER Years Protecting per hour increased process for maximum motor
Critical Motors adds up to up-time efficiency

EXPLORE & INTERACT

Grid Challenge Delays in Accessing Production Data

Due to INADEQUATE

38%
COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

of oil & gas production

data cannot be accessed
for 3 DAYS or MORE

Lack of real time asset data could extend Up to $1.6M potential loss from a single well 28% of oil & gas production data is
production downtime to over 10 Weeks due to production downtime acquired manually from remote field assets

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GE Solution Real-Time Wireless Coverage

50 miles
GE’s Data Acquisition solutions PROVIDE up to

of cost effective, real-time

wireless coverage for robust
monitoring of pipelines, well heads, and tanks

- 40 to +70
°C °C
80
%
54
DESIGNED for THROUGHPUT Mbps
Harsh Environments Wireless connectivity of remote for data-rich
of UP TO
Operating from assets can REDUCE COSTS by up to applications

EXPLORE & INTERACT

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work to ensure the highest levels of availability, sustainability and efficiency.

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