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Peaking Power, Chapter 6: Rutland on the Leading Edge

Published on May 13, 2011 By dlucier

Rutland, Vermont is probably not a place one would expect to be in the forefront in new technology in power generation, unless perhaps it was in mountain stream hydropower.  Even less likely is this town’s involvement with one of the first land-based gas turbines to drive an electric generator.  But that is just what happened [...]