Smart Grid
GE has developed real, smart grid solutions to address the planet's energy infrastructure needs and create an integrated, sustainable solution capable of handling power challenges for the next 100 years. Smart grid solutions improve performance; they are real and running. Intelligence and control improvements result in better ways to manage energy usage and control costs.
We are building a re-imagined power grid with: Real. Smart. Solutions.
How it works
GE has expertise across the electrical grid, gained through real-world project experience. With more than 110 years building successful energy grid solutions we have a clear and compelling roadmap to help our customers
- Understand generation needs
- Determine transmission and distribution requirements
- Architect a communications plan
- Monitor, optimize and analyze assets to extend life
- Realize consumer benefits in individual homes and communities
- Integrate business systems
- Choose the right partners to deliver your Real. Smart. Solution.
Features & Benefits
- Reliable: Smarter networks, focused maintenance, better understanding and greater load control
- Efficient: Solutions that help lower delivery losses in transmission and distribution, and technologies that anticipate and monitor demand
- Productive: Asset monitoring, management, maintenance and optimization solutions
- Clean: Our efficiency technologies reduce waste in the system
- Consumer Empowering: For the first time in 100+ years of an electrified world, consumers finally understand their energy consumption patterns
- Load-Smoothing: GE offers demand response solutions, consumer empowerment tools and voltage reducing Volt/VAR technologies
- Secure: GE is employing technology and protocols to help ensure data transmitted across the smart grid remains private
- Cost Effective: GE's smart grid solutions deliver payback in efficiency, reliability, capital-cost reduction and asset utilization
