The figures are especially encouraging when comparing new gas turbines to older coal facilities.
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Microturbines provide high electrical efficiency compared with traditional gas turbines in the same size class.
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The growing worldwide demand for energy is raising demand for gas turbines and power generation equipment manufactured by GE.
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Our work is really around really recruiting high-tech manufacturing, resources that help us make jet engines and gas turbines.
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Why hold coal boilers and gas turbines to different standards for those pollutants?
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The 6-acre site uses three gas turbines, cousins of those that (using jet fuel instead) go on a Boeing 747.
On Tuesday, Tepco requested 10 GE truck-mounted gas turbines, which can provide temporary power, for use in the emergency-response effort.
The same reasoning argues even more strongly against imposing a single GHG standard on coal boilers and natural gas turbines.
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Windmills, for instance, are unpredictable and must be paired with gas turbines that can be throttled up when gusts die down.
Tepco, the Japanese power company that owns the Fukushima plant has reportedly ordered 10 truck-mounted gas turbines from General Electric.
Technologies such as internal combustion engines and gas turbines will continue to improve gradually in efficiency but they are familiar and developed.
More starkly, there were sharp declines in the production of steel pipes (15.5%), gas turbines (36.8%), excavators (13.7%), and electric motors.
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This will drive growth in sales of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines manufactured by Caterpillar.
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And GE and IBM are also getting involved by improving the efficiency of gas turbines and by bettering circuits and data storage.
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Gas turbines, steam turbines, nuclear power plants, high-speed trains, these are the areas he believes Hitachi can still be a world beater, especially in the developing world.
Thanks to dramatic advances in wind-turbine technology, the costs of setting up and operating wind generators now approach those of gas turbines, even without subsidies.
GE, which manufactures gas turbines for power generation, wind turbines and a variety of products for energy production, distribution and management is benefiting from this rising demand.
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This is because the diesel engines and gas turbines commonly used to power ships are most efficient when buzzing away constantly at close to their maximum output.
The same computer commands that can mess up the spinning of a uranium centrifuge can also interfere with the spinning of gas turbines creating electricity in power plants.
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In conclusion, the authors criticize energy-policy wonks for failing to pull data on orders for new GE gas turbines and corporate plans to transfer gas peaking plants to baseload.
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Even domestic rivals notably second-placed Edison (currently for sale) and Italy's municipal companies can produce electricity at a lower marginal cost than Enel, thanks to their more efficient gas turbines, says Mr Medda.
Unlike traditional "centralized" systems, distributed energy relies on small power-generating technologies like solar panels or ultra-efficient natural-gas turbines built near the point of energy consumption to supplement or displace grid-distributed electricity.
But that is just America: although historically it has represented 15-50% of world demand for utility-sized gas turbines, the growth of emerging economies means that it is now just 8%, reckons Bernstein.
The company is involved in all sorts of ventures, even in energy, where, apart from nuclear, it has operations in natural gas, gas turbines, oil services, wind energy, and coal, among other products.
He cites FuelCell Energy's work for the Department of Energy on a technology known as the fuel cell hybrids, or power plants that cut emissions by combining fuel cells with conventional gas turbines.
The power station in the Vale already has five slow-speed engines and three gas turbines with which to produce electricity for the island - the oldest of which was installed about 35 years ago.
To that end, it has hired 3, 500 people during the worst recession in decades and is currently staffing up with about 1, 500 new workers at its Charlotte-area facility where it is assembling gas turbines.
At a time when the world generally is cutting budgets, General Electric Co. ( GE) recently announced that sales of its huge-ticket items like jet engines, gas turbines, energy infrastructure and locomotives are really doing very well.
Combined-cycle gas turbines, which use hot exhaust gases from one turbine to generate steam to turn a second one, can transform 6, 800 Btu of gas into a kilowatt-hour of electricity, enough to light one lightbulb for ten hours.
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