H System takes road trip

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GE Energy’s first 7H gas turbine has completed testing and is on its way to the Inland Empire Energy Center near Riverside, California.

first 7H gas turbine has completed testing and is being moved to the Inland Empire Energy Center, California, the commercial launch site for GE’s 60-hertz H System technology.

The 7H, the first of two units planned for the 775-megawatt Inland Empire project, was shipped from GE’s Greenville, South Carolina 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, South Carolina, where it was placed aboard a vessel for a six-week voyage through the Panama Canal to Long Beach, California. 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 said to be a key component of GE ecomagination, a corporate-wide initiative to develop and market technologies that will help customers address environmental challenges.

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