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Peaking Power, Chapter Twenty: F-Technology and Beyond

Published on December 26, 2012 By dlucier

General Electric began offering the MS7001FA around the turn of the 21st Century.  The most obvious distinguishing feature of the 7F technology was the “cold-end-drive” design.  The generator is connected to the compressor end of the turbine rotor, a departure from GE design concept for over 50 years.  Also, unlike the MS7001EA design, the 7F [...]

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 [...]