Upgrades, Retrofits & Modifications

Overview

As industrial plants age, they encounter two problems: equipment reliability decreases and equipment application becomes mismatched with facility expansions and modifications. GE offers custom designed upgrades, retrofits, and modifications to ensure improved power system reliability and performance to match current and future facility needs. GE can provide design services, procurement, project management, installation and commissioning for power system projects. GE has experience working on all OEM equipment with an engineered equipment package or turnkey approach.

GE Upgrades, Retrofits, & Modifications Can Deliver Value by

  • Extending life and improving reliability of existing electrical systems
  • Matching power system performance to facility requirements, ensuring safe operation
  • Transferring project risk from the customer to GE with a turnkey approach, minimizing costs due to scope creep and schedule changes
  • Reducing downtime to complete retrofits with efficient project management and preplanning
  • Minimizing design risk due to experience with multiple OEM equipment
  • Providing lifecycle services for the power delivery infrastructure

GE offers Upgrades on the following power system equipment:

  • Switchgear and switchboards, low voltage and medium voltage breakers and disconnects
  • Unit substations, distribution and primary substations
  • Protective relaying systems for generators, switchgear, substations, and distribution systems
  • Motor starters and motor control centers, low voltage and medium voltage


  • Bus bars, ISO phase buses and lines
  • Transformers and transformer monitoring
  • Excitation systems
  • Equipment monitoring and communication systems
  • Harmonic filters
  • Packaged electrical control houses

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