We are truly honored and humbled to help provide reliable and sustainable electricity for nearly one-third of the world’s population. We take this responsibility seriously, always focusing on our values of Safety, Quality, Delivery and Customer.
JIM VONO, GE Vernova’s Gas Power One Field Services Leader & FieldCore’s President and CEO
For every challenge, our commitment to customers is simple:
Deliver the most value and
best outcomes by providing:
Talented Employees
Collaboration, creativity, and profound field experience make our employees stand out. Our brightest minds and rigorously trained professionals work diligently to deliver reliable outcomes to our customers all around the world.
Finely Tuned Processes
We can connect the dots better than anyone else, optimizing systems to increase the overall performance of a plant. Thanks to our robust experience, first-hand knowledge of GE Vernova’s Gas & Steam technologies and actionable insights from performance data, we have a perspective no other provider can match.
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From the first days of Edison and his dynamo power systems and arc lights, experts have been dispatched to service this equipment.
During the 1890’s “test men” started at the bottom and worked their way up. They swept floors, carried coal to factory furnaces, worked on poles to learn the duties of linemen and eventually were able to test electrical equipment.
Fun fact- Nicola Tesla was among the first Test Men.
Early Field Engineers played a key role in solving challenges to industrial growth, such as increasing productivity by simplifying manufacturing processes. These challenges were both within GE and across the globe in customers’ plants. The Schenectady plant for example contained 6,000 feet of shafting, 50,000 feet of belting and 400 separate production mechanisms. By the end of 1905, GE Field Engineers had installed and maintained products and systems that helped meet the productivity challenge for both GE and many of its customers.
In 1949, GE’s first gas turbine for power generation, the GE MS3001, rated at 3,500kW was shipped to the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company’s Belle Isle Station and was installed by GE Field Engineers. It was the first to use the exhaust to preheat the boiler feed water for a 52,000kW steam station. This same turbine today sits on our campus in Greenville, South Carolina.
GE Field Engineers brought on line the first U.S. large scale nuclear power plant at Commonwealth Edison’s Dresden I.
In 1984 GE, along with partners, brought online the 300MW Bayou Cogeneration Plant southwest of Houston, Texas. The plant supplies process steam to nearby industrial plants and electric power to the local utility. This was the first of several cogen plants GE designed and constructed in the 1980s.
At the same time, GE Field Engineers began to more closely mirror society. Kaye Nordstrom, GE’s first female Field Engineer began with the company in the 1980s, representing a new era of field engineering.
The 1990s were marked by bigger, more efficient power generation technologies. This includes the first 7FA gas turbine for 60Hz service. This turbine broke records for output and efficiency at Florida Power and Light’s Martin Station. The first 9FA, at 227MW was installed to produce for the 50Hz market in southeast England.
In the nuclear arena, GE Field Engineers helped install the world’s first advanced boiling water reactor and the world’s largest steam turbine-generator at Tokyo Electric Power Company.
As North America experienced controlled blackouts and brownouts in placed like Chicago, and the globe began to embrace conservation, a gas bubble emerged. Orders far outpaced manufacturing capacity and a secondary market for manufacturing slots emerged. Between 1998 and 2001, ~330GW of gas turbine equipment was ordered. This equals the amount of all gas turbine orders between 1979 and 1998.
Almost as quickly, the bubble burst in 2001 when the price of electricity plummeted. Demand was soft as the recession took hold.
In 2015, GE acquired European competitor Alstom. We expanded our steam turbine services greatly and integrated thousands of Alstom experts into the GE family, including in the field engineering ranks.
In order to bring more focus back to field engineering and the field, GE decided to form field service company, FieldCore. This new entity included for the first time, Field Engineers, craft labor and other experts under one roof to focus on delivering World-Class Execution to our customers.
Following FieldCore’s successful launch and renewed focus on the field, the group was made part of GE Vernova’s Gas Power One Field Services team. The result has been a more uniform experience for our customers and broad sharing of best practices
In April, GE Vernova officially separated from GE to become its own publicly-traded entity comprised of 12 businesses in the power generation and distribution sector. This “130-year-old startup” is focused singularly on electrifying and decarbonizing the world. Today, GE Vernova and specifically its Gas Power business leans on the 130-year-old legacy of Edison and the test men to deliver The Energy to Change the World.
