GE’s Fixed Series Compensation technology as a response to grid challenges
France, Paris: GE continues to provide leading technological solutions to the ever-evolving challenges facing grid operators today.
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France, Paris: GE continues to provide leading technological solutions to the ever-evolving challenges facing grid operators today.
With its unique and innovative Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS), GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business continues to meet the growing power needs of transmission systems worldwide.
Recent grid customer contracts totalling nearly $70 M reflect customers’ growing reliance on GE’s Fixed Series Compensation (FSC) technology.
FSC systems make transmission lines behave as if they are physically shorter, thus allowing additional electrical power (throughput) to flow down long transmission lines. For applications like renewable wind energy, this means that more of the green energy produced by the wind turbines gets delivered to where it is needed.
“GE has more than a century of experience designing transmission networks, including the first series compensation project in 1928,” said Fabrice Jullien, Global FACTS Business Leader for Grid Integration Solutions, a GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business. “Available for both new and existing substations, the industry-leading FACTS Fixed Series Compensation technology allows utilities to cost-effectively increase transmission lines’ power transfer capabilities with reduced transmission line losses and overall improved power grid stability.”
The energy transition is well underway around the world, and GE’s FSC technology is one of the key tools being used by transmission system operations and wind farm developers to better integrate green energy onto our existing AC grids.
Source: GE Grid Solutions
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