How much money was wasted building the LNG facility in Greenville that never liquified natural gas? This is the same GE location that builds Gas turbines that are failing. I am guessing GE invested $70 Million on a facility that never functioned per design.
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You forget the battery plant wasn't part of power. It was transportation that dropped the ball on that design. Greenvill always has and always will be on the chopping block. Checks in the mail. Stay tuned. Greenville never was intended to stay in GVL long term. You'll start seeing equipment head back to schenectady here soon
No difference than the 100 million dollar flop battery plant in Schenectady that lasted 3 years.
It was supposed to make LNG for bulk storage. The LNG could then be vaporizrd back into NG to meet fuel demand for TS7. However the compression train and cold storage have never worked as intended, and GE couldn't be bothered to make the contractors fix it. Basically it accumulates natural gas under pressure instead of accumulating it in a much denser liquid form, which reduces the system's effective surge capacity far below what it should have been capable of. It's as if GE paid for a 1 million gallon fuel tank that can only hold 1000 gallons. Fail.
It was SUPPOSED to make LNG. Ask BertS.
The facility uses LNG, because at times we consume more NG than the pipeline will provide to GE. It doesn't make LNG dummy.
GE doesn't have any free cash.
If GE wanted ts7 to do what it was designed to do then GE would have sued the engineering company, the compressor vendor and spent another 5millon fixing it. GE actually doesn't care so it never fixed it.
You do realize the recent GT failures are design issues, right? Nothing whatsoever to do with where they are manufactured.