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Friday, April 3, 2015

GE’s New Gas Turbines Are State of the Art, But Are We Getting Too Cozy With the Fuel?

GE’s New Gas Turbines Are State of the Art, But Are We Getting Too Cozy With the Fuel?

By Jared Anderson
9HA gas turbine in validation test stand
The first natural gas-fired turbine for US power generation and one of today’s state-of-the-art designs currently live a couple hundred yards apart on GE’s massive 413-acre Greenville, South Carolina campus. The fact that both machines convert natural gas into electricity is pretty much where the similarities end. The first gas turbine used for electric utility

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