GE's First 7H Gas Turbine Heading for Inland Empire Project in California.North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Launch for GE's Most Advanced Technology ATLANTA -- GE Energy's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : GE) first 7H gas turbine, one of the most efficient and advanced machines of its type in the world, has completed testing and is on its way to the Inland Empire In·land Empire A region of the northwest United States between the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains, comprising eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, northern Idaho, and western Montana. Farming, lumbering, and mining are important to the area. Energy Center near Riverside, California Riverside is the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States and is also a focus city of the Greater Los Angeles Area. The city is named for the nearby Santa Ana River. As of 2006, Riverside had an estimated population of 293,741. , the commercial launch site for GE's 60-hertz H System[TM] technology. The 7H, the first of two units planned for the 775-megawatt Inland Empire project, was shipped from GE's Greenville, South Carolina
Greenville is a mid-sized city located in the upstate of South Carolina. It is the county seat of Greenville CountyGR6 facility on September 15. The 696,000-pound machine was loaded onto a special rail car for a 260-mile journey to the port of Charleston, S.C., where it was placed aboard a vessel for a six-week voyage through the Panama Canal Panama Canal, waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic (by way of the Caribbean Sea) and Pacific oceans, built by the United States (1904–14) on territory leased from the republic of Panama. to Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city located in southern Los Angeles County, California, USA, on the Pacific coast. It borders Orange County on its southeast edge. It is about 20 miles (30 km) south of downtown Los Angeles. . From there, the 7H will have a one-week road trip to the Inland Empire Energy Center in Romoland, near Riverside, arriving at the project site in early November. The world's first combined-cycle platform with the capability to reach 60+ percent thermal efficiency, the H System is a key component of GE ecomagination, a corporate-wide initiative to develop and market technologies that will help customers address pressing environmental challenges. Operating on natural gas, the two GE 107 H combined-cycle units at Inland Empire will produce enough power to supply nearly 600,000 households while reducing future carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. emissions by more than 146,000 tons a year, compared to a typical gas-fired power plant of a similar size. The new power plant is expected to enter commercial service by the summer of 2008, in time to help offset state-forecasted energy shortfalls in Southern California. "The shipment of our first 7H is an exciting milestone in the journey on the road to commercial operation for our most advanced 60-hertz gas turbine," said John Reinker, general manager of gas turbine and combined-cycle products for GE Energy. "Southern California, with its strong focus on finding more efficient and cleaner methods to meet its growing power requirements, is an ideal place to showcase our latest technology." GE will finance and own the Inland Empire Energy Center. Calpine Power Services will manage plant construction, and Calpine Energy Services will market the plant's output and manage fuel requirements under a long-term marketing arrangement with GE. Following an extended period of GE ownership, Calpine expects to purchase the plant and become its sole owner and operator, with GE continuing to provide critical plant maintenance services under a long-term agreement with Calpine. Other recent H System highlights have included: * In June, GE shipped the first of three 50-hertz, 9H gas turbines to Japan for Tokyo Electric Power Company's Futtsu Thermal Power Station A thermal power station comprises all of the equipment and systems required to produce electricity by using a steam generating boiler fired with fossil fuels or biofuels to drive an electrical generator. Group 4 project. * The world's first H System recently surpassed 17,000 operating hours at the Baglan Bay Power Station Baglan Bay power station is a 525MW CCGT (Combined Cycle Gas Turbine) power station situated on Baglan Moors, south Wales. The power station was built on the site of the former BP chemicals plant in 2004, costing £300 million. in Port Talbot, South Wales, where it began commercial service in 2003. Representing a technology breakthrough for the global power industry, GE's H System features an innovative steam cooling system that enables the higher firing temperatures required for increased efficiency. In addition, GE engineers designed the H turbines' first-stage buckets and nozzles with single-crystal materials to withstand higher temperatures over a long service life. About GE Energy GE Energy (www.ge.com/energy) is one of the world's leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technologies, with 2005 revenue of $16.5 billion. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, GE Energy works in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy; renewable resources such as water, wind, solar and biogas bi·o·gas n. A mixture of methane and carbon dioxide produced by bacterial degradation of organic matter and used as a fuel. biogas Noun gaseous fuel produced by the fermentation of organic waste ; and other alternative fuels. Numerous GE Energy products are certified under ecomagination, GE's corporate-wide initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges. Photo caption: GE's first Frame 7H gas turbine begins its journal from Greenville, South Carolina to the Inland Empire Energy Center in California. |
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