Today’s Challenging Environment
For most utilities ensuring grid reliability, efficiency, and security is a primary concern. As the grid evolves and load profiles change, stresses are being put onto transmission and distribution networks, making the work of grid management much more challenging.
Globally, utilities face many grid challenges and market condition changes including:
- Changes in generation mix
- Decrease in conventional generation
- Increase in renewable and distributed generation
- Environmental and regulatory policy changes, driving the retirement of traditional coal generating stations
These challenges operationally impact the electrical infrastructure, and particularly create an overall deficiency in:
- Reactive compensation support
- Voltage support
- System inertia
- Low short circuit ratios on the network
GE’s Solution
GE’s Synchronous Condenser Systems are engineered and designed to provide a highly reliable and efficient solution to address reactive compensation and voltage support requirements, providing transmission operators an optimized solution for cost, performance and operational flexibility.
GE’s Synchronous Condensers are modular, air-cooled and rated for any range up to 300Mvar+ per machine. The solution can provide both steady state and dynamic support to the power system efficiently. GE machines can be easily combined in 2 or 3 unit sets to offer utilities reliability, ease of maintenance and operational flexibility.
