GE Intelligent Platforms

Proficy Grid Manager Solutions

Optimize your grid management

To help you make progress toward a smarter, more cost-effective grid, GE Intelligent Platforms offers proven technologies and a practical and flexible approach built around your local utilitys vision.
With rapid change taking place in the energy industry, local utilities face rising electricity costs, increasing demand, regulatory and environmental pressures, and growing customer expectations for greater transparency, control, and choice. To address these challenges while maintaining financial sustainability, it has become imperative to move toward a modern energy infrastructure and more intelligent, cost-effective grid. GE Intelligent Platforms understands your needs, and our Proficy* Grid Manager is a targeted portfolio of proven grid optimization software technologies for local utilities that delivers real-time information and analytics to improve your operational reliability and efficiencyenabling you to make progress toward implementing a smarter grid. With Grid Manager, you can:
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Supporting your smart grid goals

Working with you to understand your utilitys specific needs, we help you develop a customized smart grid roadmap that leverages your existing assets and provides an integrated strategy to achieve your desired level of smart grid maturityregardless of where your utility is today. Our flexible approach builds around your specific needs and current technologies, so you can start at any step of the roadmap that suits your operations best.

Reduce system outages Enhance equipment lifecycles Better manage customer loads Digitize standard operating procedures

Set apart from other solutions, GEs Proficy Grid Manager is open and layered for easy scalability and Microsoft-based for easier support and training, cost effectiveness, and integrated securityhelping you easily progress toward grid optimization.

Expertise, experience and commitment you can count on

GE has more than 100 years of experience in the utility industryenabling you to leverage our companys best practices, technology innovations, and global resources.
We are committed to helping you move forward with our deep domain expertise and experience, proven technologies, and unparalleled breadth of solutions and resources that are delivering results at more than 20,000 installed sites globally.

Extensive support services

To facilitate implementation of Proficy Grid Manager, you can leverage our flexible and value-added training, integration, and support services backed by an extensive network of GE and third-party experts providing only the level of service your utility needs to enable a more intelligent, cost-effective grid.

Ecomagination
This is our company-wide commitment to create and enhance products that help our customers improve their environmental and operating performance. As such, our smart grid solutions combine the strengths of our environmental technologies and the collective imagination of our people to be as economically advantageous as they are ecologically sound.

Unparalleled product breadth

Our suite of solutions encompasses powerful and integrated software capabilities, including HMI/SCADA, historian, analytics and reporting, and asset optimization to provide the insight you need to make smarter operational and business decisions. We also offer industry-unique solutions such as knowledge management for faster troubleshooting and consistent, reliable operations.

Trusted GE brand
As one of the most trusted names in the world, GEs history of innovation, customer commitment, and track record of proven results are ideals that you can rely on today and into the future.

Flexible, open and layered platform

To protect your existing and future smart grid technology investments, Proficy Grid Manager provides seamless connectivity with GE solutions as well as third-party products. Combined with our integration services expertise, our solutions enable easy interoperability, reduced risks, lower costs, and faster time to solution.

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GEs flexible strategy to a smarter grid

Unique from other market offerings, our smart grid roadmap is tailored to meet your needs with technologies that seamlessly integrate with your existing and future assetsdriving real value.
Customized. We work with you to develop a complimentary Smart Grid Roadmap, a flexible, holistic and integrated approach that provides a step-by-step strategy tailored to meet your specific business needs. Our technologies offer easy connectivity and interoperability with your current and future solutions from GE or third parties. Integrated. Each step of the roadmap has clear goals that help you make smarter business decisionsstarting with an assessment of your current technologies and scaling up to a cost-effective grid management solution. Modular. A key advantage is that your utility can jump straight in at any step and progress from that point, depending on what smart grid technologies may already be in placeallowing you to focus on the areas that enable the best operational performance and maximized cost effectiveness for your utility today while providing a strategic, forward-looking path for the future.

PROFICY GRID MANAGER SOLUTIONS

Proficy Grid Manager Solutions:

Operations Management Dashboard

To help you improve SAIDI and CAIDI reliability metrics, GEs control-room dashboard solution helps you remotely monitor and respond to outages, analyze and prioritize alarms, and leverage advanced and causal analysisdelivering actionable information. Built with proven technologies, our solution integrates, aggregates and analyzes your data to provide a unifying, real-time, big picture view of your operations as well as the ability to drill down into root causes empowering operators to solve problems more efficiently and minimize financial loss due to downtime.

resources, GEs load management solutions leverage next-generation technologies to provide powerful analytics that can help you more effectively predict and balance customer loads. With our solutions, you can rapidly identify trends and common causes of load variations using fully integrated data visualization, statistical analysis, modeling and reporting to proactively manage loadsallowing for more appropriate demand control responses and greater efficiency and financial sustainability for your utility.

It interactively guides your operators with logic-based, step-by-step instructions for actions such as switching procedures and outage troubleshootinghelping you attain more consistent work processes, reduce training, and combat the brain drain when your most knowledgeable employees leave or retire.

Grid Information Manager

To help you make smarter business decisions that improve operational reliability and efficiency, GEs grid information manager solution enables you to gain a single view of all your grid information management functions quickly and easily. With flexible displays and role-based views, critical information such as wholesale market and load analysis can be shared with the right stakeholders across your utility enabling increased productivity, efficiency, and accountability.

Knowledge Management
To make every operator an expert and ensure your best practices become standard operating procedures, GEs knowledge management solution is an industry-unique offering that can electronically manage your work processes and provide an audit trail for compliance.

Lifecycle Management
To reduce outages caused by equipment failures, GEs lifecycle management solutions can help you deploy predictive replacement strategies with monitoring and analytics of your transmission and distribution (T&D) equipment, providing information that enables quick diagnosis and response to events. By moving from a reactive to a predictive maintenance strategy, you can better assess and manage the health of your assets to extend your equipment lifecycles, reduce maintenance costs, and deliver better return on investment.

Ready to transform your smart grid vision into reality?

Let GE help you set your strategy for success with our targeted portfolio of proven grid optimization software technologiesenabling a more intelligent, financially sustainable grid.

Load Management
To help minimize the impact of peak loads on the T&D system and limit utility spending on wholesale supply or new generation

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Smart Grid Roadmap

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