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27 September 2006 -- GE Energy's first 7H gas turbine has completed testing and is on its way to the Inland Empire Energy Center near Riverside, California, US, the commercial launch site for GE's 60-hertz H System technology.
The 7H, the first of two units planned for the 775-MW 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, S.C., 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.
GE is touting the H System as the world's first combined-cycle platform with the capability to reach 60 percent thermal efficiency and a component of the company's "ecomagination" program.
The new power plant is expected to enter commercial service by the summer of 2008, in time to help offset state-forecasted energy shortfalls in Southern California.
GE will finance and own the Inland Empire Energy Center. Calpine Power Services will manage plant construction, and Calpine Energy Services will market the plant's output and manage fuel requirements under a long-term marketing arrangement with GE. Following an extended period of GE ownership, Calpine expects to purchase the plant and become its sole owner and operator, with GE continuing to provide critical plant maintenance services under a long-term agreement with Calpine.
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