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Turbines Are Buffer against Summer Heat in Rochester, Minn.
Byline: Bob Freund
Jul. 2--Just before 9 a.m. on Wednesday, three sets of fan blades on a Pratt & Whitney jet turbine on Rochester's west side started winding up in succession, accelerating toward target speeds.
Suddenly, a loud "clunk" cracked through the control room, and electricity surged out over a transmission line into the city's power grid.
For about the next 10 hours, the turbine would produce electricity for a small Iowa town served by Mid-American Energy Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, said Wally Schlink, power production manager for Rochester Public Utilities.
That newly built generator and a companion machine began dispatching ...
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...from some manhole covers at street level. RPU has been searching for the core reason while...without major repair, said Wally Schlink, RPU director of power resources. Since returning...reduced pressure, limiting its usefulness. RPU is sending enough steam down the pipe to...
- RPU wins award for innovation, research.
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...Public Utilities this spring, and even an RPU board member is bristling about it. The...worse. SMMPA actually is raising rates for RPU and 17 other member utilities by 16.9...executive officer Ray Hayward on Tuesday told RPU board members that tens of millions of dollars...