Sorry for the late answers to this blog, I have been in Aruba for a week :)
The units are on the governor as soon as they hit around 3500 rpm and yes these are WH turbines.
We do push MVARS at our end of town when necessary.
Yes our smaller gas units could be taking the load swings faster than...
The controls are very old. These two units were put in, in towards the late 1950s. They are old pneumatic controls with modern P-I and I-P controls behind them.
We are a large company that has around 6000MW of capability for our generation area. We have 2 large coal burners, 500mw each about...
I work for a large power company at a pretty old gas fired steam turbine plant.
I started working there about 5 years ago but I have 30 years of power production experience in the military and civilian world before getting a job at this plant.
Most of my experience is with Diesel power engine...
