energy transition
Force Multiplier: GE’s High-Efficiency ‘HE’ Solution Poised to Land in Australia
A gas turbine stripped down to nothing but its casing brings to mind a scene from an automaker’s assembly line: an empty chassis that’s full of potential. Next year, a GE team will seek to realize such potential at the 435-megawatt Tallawarra A power station, 60 miles south of Sydney on the New South Wales coast. The goal is to transform an existing GE turbine there into one that will be more efficient and require less natural gas to generate electricity.
Future of electricity
London Calling: This British Power Plant Will Be Reborn As A Lean, Mean Electricity-Generating Machine
The growth of renewable power means that the owners of the world’s gas turbines have to accept some Darwinian logic: Adapt or die. The challenge is particularly acute in the U.K., where electricity production from wind, solar and hydropower installations is booming. The total installed capacity of the country’s renewables sector now exceeds that of fossil-fuel-fired generation, or power plants that burn coal, gas and oil.