GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business (GE) has recently been awarded four projects involving GE’s reactive power compensation technologies.

In Montevideo, Uruguay, GE has been commissioned by the National Administration of Power Plants and Electrical Transmissions (UTE) to upgrade and modernize the 40-year-old technology at the SVC Montevideo by retrofitting the valves, cooling system and control system.

In Jaguaruana, Ceara, Brazil, Dunas Transmissão de Energia was recently awarded a Lot of the ANEEL Transmission Auction to implement the transmission installations in the states of Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará. Equipment for the Lot includes GE’s 500 kV SVC at -150 to +300 Mvar, which should facilitate the integration of renewable power onto the electrical grid.

A large transmission system operator (TSO) in the Middle East has chosen GE’s STATCOM installation to improve the rapid voltage support and dynamic voltage stability in one of the operational areas within its network. The -150 to +450 Mvar Dynamic Reactive Power Compensation (DRPC) system will be installed on a turnkey basis at an existing substation.

As part of GE’s onshore and offshore substation equipment project in Fife, Scotland, Grid Integration Solutions is providing the STATCOM installation that will supply -170 to +57 Mvar. Once operational, the EDF Renewables and ESB-owned Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm is expected to offset more than 400,000 tons of CO₂ emissions each year and provide enough electricity to power more than 375,000 Scottish homes.

 “Both STATCOM and SVC are key solutions to help address our customer’s requirements to dynamically integrate renewable generation on to grid networks that were not originally designed with that in mind,” said Fabrice Jullien, Global FACTS Business Leader for Grid Integration Solutions, GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business.

Source: GE’s Grid Solutions