The first natural gas-fired turbine for US power generation and one of today’s state-of-the-art designs currently live a couple hundred yards apart on GE’s massive 413-acre Greenville, South Carolina campus. The fact that both machines convert natural gas into electricity is pretty much where the similarities end. The first gas turbine used for electric utility… Keep reading →
This article is part of the Energy.gov series highlighting the “Top Things You Didn’t Know About…” Be sure to check back for more entries soon. Encompassing three research sites and two offices in five separate states — Alaska, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia — the Energy Department’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has a 104‑year history… Keep reading →
