The GE Advantage

GE is globally recognized for designing, manufacturing and delivering customized

HVDC solutions for utilities worldwide. GE offers two HVDC technologies, Line

Commutated Converters (LCC) and Voltage Source Converters (VSC), for a broad

range of applications and available in a range of 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 long

distance power transmission, energy trading between independent networks

or connection between asynchronous networks. GE offers the complete

package including early feasibility studies, project management from

network analysis and design, to commissioning. GE is globally recognized

for partnering with customers to deliver technically challenging projects for

more than 50 years and provides customers with the following benefits:

Robust leading edge technology designed and built in advanced

automated manufacturing and testing facilities to maximize

quality and system performance

• Customer value driven innovation built on foundational engineering

practices that have been developed for more than 50 years

• New, advanced automated manufacturing and test facilities delivering

precision, repeatability and quality to meet the exacting requirements of

the HVDC industry

• Significant investment in quality systems and resources including one of the

largest VSC HVDC demonstration laboratories in the world, state-of-the-art

valve test facilities and one of the only HVDC cable ageing laboratories in

the industry, ensuring superior technical performance of installed systems

• Pioneered flexible HVDC control methods, for complex applications such as

de-icing, and multi-terminal HVDC