SUGAR LAND--April 22, 2015--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The 495-megawatt (MW), natural gas combined-cycle (NGCC) generator under construction in Chouteau, Oklahoma, will feature North America's first deployment of the M501J gas turbine, which is manufactured by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas (Lake Mary, Florida) and reportedly has achieved efficiencies of up to 61.5%. The Grand River Energy Center Unit 3, a $372 million project scheduled for completion by mid-2017, will help Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) (Vinita, Oklahoma), a state-owned generation and transmission utility, achieve better fuel diversity and meet coming environmental regulations.

Within this article: Deployment of the Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas M501J gas turbine in North America.