GE Renewable Energy
Hydro Solutions
Check out all our North American opportunities below and join us in unleashing limitless energy.

We are hydro

We believe that the combination of our extensive hydro and digital intelligence makes GE Renewable Energy well-suited to serve this intense & ongoing energy transition. Smarter and more connected, GE’shydro plants no longer just generate power, they storeit and deliver it to the grid with an unmatched level of predictability, flexibility and efficiency.

100 + years of experience

25% of the world's
hydro installed based equipped by GE

30% of the world's hydro storage plants equipped with GE's technology

100 + hydro plants rely on GE's Hydro Digital solutions

This is hydro

A wide range of Hydro solutions

Large

Our portfolio covers a variety of hydro power plants ,from high to low head and run-of-river configurations.

Small

We offer standard small hydro power solutions from 5MW unit out put to best fit customer’s specific needs.

Micro

GE Renewable Energy’s Hydro business and Energy combine their strengths around a high-performing micro hydro technology (self-contained module made of twin turbines-2x5kW or 2x7.5kW), generators, electrical cabinet, connectable to BoP/Grid.

Hydro storage

GE Renewable Energy has the largest installed base of pumped hydro power storage units in operation. With +30% of the world’s hydro storage plants equipped with our technologies, we can provide a solution adapted to meet the specific needs of our customers in a variety of environments

Hydro is a multi-purpose energy resource

Water management

As Hydropower experts, water management is at the core of our expertise benefiting to local activities.

Agriculture & irrigation
Water security
Flows management
Sanitation

Sustainable development

Hydropower is one of the oldest ways used for producing decarbonized electricity at the lowest Levelized Cost of Energy.

Energy independency
Local Communities
Mitigating the impacts of extreme weather

Enabler of the energy transition

Hydropower is the perfect enabler of renewable expansion.

Reliable, storable and flexible electricity
Balancing wind and solar
Stabilizing the Grid through ancillary services
Hydropower has the lowest carbon footprint over its life cycle than any other form of energy