• At DISTRIBUTECH 2025, GE Vernova introduces new whitepapers aimed at helping utilities address the evolving challenges of grid reliability, cybersecurity, and digital transformation.
• The whitepapers focus on virtualized protection, AI-driven grid management, and secure remote access, offering insights on how to build resilient, modern energy networks.
• Experts at DISTRIBUTECH 2025 will present live demonstrations of solutions at Booth 3223, showcasing practical tools for a grid ready for the future.

TEXAS, US (March 25, 2025) – As global utilities face escalating concerns related to grid security, modernization, and reliability, GE Vernova unveils a series of whitepapers that offer pragmatic strategies to enhance energy systems. Launched at DISTRIBUTECH 2025 in Dallas, Texas, these papers provide grid operators worldwide with valuable insights into cybersecurity, digitalization, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) strategies—critical for ensuring a secure, resilient, and future-proof energy network.

The Growing Importance of Grid Reliability and Automation

The world is entering an era where AI-powered data centers, electrified transportation, and industrial automation are reshaping energy demand. This transition is placing immense pressure on grids, compelling utilities to reassess their approach to resilience and efficiency. Meanwhile, energy grids have become prime targets for cyberattacks. To address this, utilities must adopt scalable, software-based solutions that can revolutionize grid operations—improving reliability without requiring costly hardware upgrades, ensuring secure remote access, strengthening substation resilience, optimizing grid usage, and unlocking new economic possibilities.

GE Vernova’s latest whitepapers offer practical guidance on overcoming these critical challenges and securing networks for the future.

Key Insights from the Whitepapers

• Modernization through Virtualized Protection, Automation & Control (VPAC)
• Utilities are experiencing a major transformation in managing protection and control systems. Traditional, hardware-dependent protection systems are increasingly inadequate to handle the complexities of modern grids, making virtualization essential for utilities. GE Vernova’s research examines:
• Unlocking Resilience & Scalability with Virtualized Software-Defined Substation Solutions – GE Vernova explores how virtualization can replace outdated hardware dependencies, cut operational costs, and enable remote upgrades—ushering in a flexible, software-driven approach to grid management.

Enhancing Grid Cybersecurity

The power grid is not just an engineering challenge but a security priority. Grids remain prime targets for cyberattacks, and legacy systems combined with digital substations present significant vulnerabilities. Two whitepapers focus on:

Secure Remote Access Solutions – Many grid assets weren’t designed for remote management, making them vulnerable to cyber threats. This whitepaper outlines advanced access control strategies to protect legacy infrastructure while enabling modernization.

Substation Cyber Resilience – While digital substations are transforming grid management, they also bring new risks. This whitepaper explores multi-layered cybersecurity strategies to enhance defenses, reduce attack surfaces, and protect against sophisticated grid disruptions.

Empowering Intelligent Grids with AI

As the energy sector evolves, utilities face mounting challenges stemming from the integration of renewable energy, increasing grid complexity, and heightened resilience needs in the face of cyber threats and extreme weather. Traditional grid management methods are proving insufficient. This whitepaper, part of a four-paper series, explores the crucial role AI can play in revolutionizing grid management.

Highlighting Innovation at DISTRIBUTECH 2025

At DISTRIBUTECH 2025 in Dallas, GE Vernova will highlight its latest innovations in grid digitization and automation technologies, offering real-world solutions for grid reliability, security, and modernization. Experts will be available at Booth 3223 to discuss insights from the whitepapers and demonstrate how advanced digital and automation solutions can help utilities build a more resilient, future-ready energy network.

About GE Vernova

GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) is a purpose-driven global energy company encompassing Power, Wind, and Electrification sectors, supported by accelerator businesses. With over 130 years of tackling the world’s energy challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to lead the energy transition, continuing to electrify the world while working towards its decarbonization. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver essential electricity vital for health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., GE Vernova operates in over 100 countries and employs approximately 75,000 people globally. Guided by its purpose, The Energy to Change the World, GE Vernova technology enables the delivery of a more affordable, reliable, sustainable, and secure energy future.

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