SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE
Modular Substation Automation Systems
qúatro-grid® offers
Modular Substation Automation Systems bring together an extensive portfolio of products, services and engineering excellence to deliver the next generation of substation systems for our customers that address the challenges of legacy substation systems.
GE’s Modular Substation Automation Systems offering includes a wide range of solutions to suit customer’s specific requirements and can be pre-designed, pre-packaged and pre-tested.
Designed with scalability in mind, the systems are also flexible to support several applications including power generation, transmission and distribution, wind and solar collector substations, heavy industries, mining and oil and gas.
Utility & Industrial Substation Projects
qúatro-grid offers Substation and electrical infrastructure projects for utility and industrial customers face a number of challenges in today's environment. Increasing demand and workload peaks, NERC and FERC regulations, and an aging workforce and infrastructure serve as drivers for outsourcing these complex projects.
qúatro-grid serves these needs with a comprehensive range of products and services for substation and electrical grid projects that can be delivered as Engineered Equipment Packages (EEP), Engineer, Procure and Construct EPC) and support services.
Key Benefits
- Extensive industry, technical and project management experience
- Leading safety and on-site management record
- On-time and on-budget delivery
- Comprehensive integration capability
Green Field Substations
- Utility
- Renewables
- Industrial
Substation Upgrade Programs
- Transformer additions
- Transformer change-outs
- Breaker additions
- Breaker change-outs
- Ring bus expansions
- Protection & control/SCADA upgrades
DC Substation Solutions
qúatro-grid's Direct Current (DC) substation solutions are custom designed systems that provide highly reliable and efficient DC voltage and current for specific metals processing operations.
qúatro-grid has provided approximately half of all aluminium smelting DC plants globally since 2014. A significant reason for this is the technology advantages that qúatro-grid provides over other competitive offerings. qúatro-grid's solution in the aluminium smelting application currently provides the highest DC amperage of any offering in the industry, providing 600kA's to the potline process.
qúatro-grid experience in delivering over 600 DC substation projects for industrial applications in diverse and extreme environmental conditions in over 70 countries.
qúatro-grid provides a comprehensive range of medium voltage and high voltage products and services for DC substations in various metal processing applications. These solutions can be delivered as Engineered Equipment Packages (EEP), Engineer, Procure and Construct (EPC) and support services.
HVDC Systems
qúatro-grid provides 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.
qúatro-grid is globally recognized for designing, manufacturing and delivering customized HVDC solutions for utilities worldwide. qúatro-grid offers two HVDC technologies, Line Commutated Converters (LCC) and Voltage Source Converters (VSC), to support a broad range of applications and deployable in different schemes including overhead line (point to point), back to back, submarine/land cable and offshore.
Every HVDC solution is tailored and designed based on a project-by-project assessment of the customers' individual requirements, whether it's for connecting offshore wind generation, long distance power transmission, or energy trading between independent networks.
Electrical Balance of Plant
qúatro-grid provides Solutions for power generation
Todays power plants, whether heavy duty gas turbines, a distributed mobile “power plant on wheels”, or a remote wind farm, are becoming increasingly complex, especially when connecting different disparate systems seamlessly together.
qúatro-grid helps utilities solve these challenges with its versatile and robust solutions for Electrical Balance of Plant (EBoP) applications. Offering best-in-class manufactured products with engineering and installation services, qúatro-grid’s EBoP solutions are scalable to support a large range of projects from heavy duty turbine generation to renewable wind and solar applications.
Microgrid and DER Management Solutions
The energy landscape today is changing, this is being led by the current industry trends of Decarbonization, Digitization, Decentralization and Electrification. These trends are coupled with growing customer demands for clean, reliable, and economical energy. This environment has led to a wide proliferation of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) through microgrid and renewable integration projects. Discover how GE is working with utility, consumer and industrial customers to design and deploy tailored Microgrid and Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Management solutions
Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS)
qúatro-grid 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. Our portfolio includes power electronic based technology as well as more traditional electro-mechanical solutions, which utility operators have become more interested in because of their grid friendly and reliable nature.
Energy Storage Solutions
This change to energy generation and consumption is being driven by three powerful trends: the arrival of increasingly affordable distributed power technologies, decarbonization of the world’s electricity network through the introduction of more renewable energy sources, and the emergence of digital technologies.
Decarbonization
The rapid deployment of low-carbon technologies such as wind and solar is making it increasingly difficult to forecast variable generation, creating challenges around grid stability, congestion and market volatility.
Digitization
More connected devices and smart sensors create fast decision-making on dynamic and nodal prices, while intelligent control systems and internet-enabled software optimize power plants and the grid.
Decentralization
The growing penetration of distributed energy resources, including renewables and storage, is creating more “prosumers” and increasing distribution grid complexity.
A battery energy storage solution offers new application flexibility and unlocks new business value across the energy value chain, from conventional power generation, transmission & distribution, and renewable power, to industrial and commercial sectors. Energy storage supports diverse applications including firming renewable production, stabilizing the electrical grid, controlling energy flow, optimizing asset operation and creating new revenue.
For renewables developers, energy storage offers a faster alternative to a PPA, which may have a lead time of a year or more. For utilities, energy storage offers relevancy with increased distributed generation.
Energy storage can help you increase the dispatchability and predictability of renewables, helping to meet strict code and connection permits.
Software-Advanced Energy Management System (AEMS)
The grid is moving to substantially increase intermittent Variable Renewable Energy “VRE” (wind and solar) to over 50% average yearly production by 2050. Already, some grids are handling over 100% VRE in a full day.
qúatro-grid has been deeply associated with pioneering countries and has gained valuable experience that allows them to reach over 50% of VRE in their energy mix. qúatro-grid Advanced EMS provides the solution to overcome challenges in operating within the new dynamics and complexities of today’s power systems.
qúatro-grid ’s Advanced EMS is the framework to master renewable generation by integrating EMS, WAMS, Renewable, and Analytics into a modular solution.
