Power Engineering

First GE Frame 6C gas turbine completes factory testing

8 January 2004 – The first Frame 6C gas turbine from GE Energy (formerly GE Power Systems) has successfully completed full-speed, no-load testing at the company’s Belfort facility. Key tests, ...
Power Engineering

First GE 9E GT shipped under Chinese technology transfer deal

14 July 2006 – The first GE Frame 9E gas turbine assembled in China under a technology transfer agreement with Nanjing Turbine & Electric Machinery (Group) Co., Ltd. was shipped this week from NTC’s ...
POWER Magazine

The POWER Interview: What Drove the Gas Turbine Technology Leap at GE Over the Past 70 Years

On July 29, 1949, at 2:15 p.m., General Electric’s (GE’s) first gas turbine at the Belle Isle Station in Oklahoma City began delivering power to Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co.’s distribution system.
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Giant GE GT goes global

In late February, the largest gas turbine ever manufactured by GE Energy at its Belfort plant in France began a 30-day journey by land and sea that will take it to a new power plant in Spain. The ...