{"id":18329,"date":"2017-11-02T18:56:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=18329"},"modified":"2017-11-02T18:56:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:56:23","slug":"largest-nuclear-steam-turbines-ever-made-to-boost-uk-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2017\/11\/02\/largest-nuclear-steam-turbines-ever-made-to-boost-uk-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest nuclear steam turbines ever made to boost UK grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Securing the UK&#8217;s energy future with carbon-free technology <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With an increase in power plants retirement by 2030, the UK is facing a critical challenge to secure and stabilise its energy production. The need for additional energy supply to secure the UK grid is now critical and the Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power plant is part of the solution. Nuclear provides dependable, CO2-free energy and when complete, HPC is expected to deliver around 7 percent of the UK\u2019s power generation capacity for the next 60 years. EDF Energy, the UK\u2019s largest producer of low-carbon electricity, is at the forefront of the new nuclear power plant development in the country, including the Hinkley Point C (HPC) power plant, featuring two EPR reactors. Once in operation, HPC is expected to deliver more than 3.2 GW to the grid, enough to cover 6 million homes, and avoid 9 million tons of CO2 emissions each year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet the two largest steam turbines ever built <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GE will supply the two conventional power islands for HPC, which include the ARABELLE\u2122 steam turbine, generator, and other critical equipment. This technology came to GE through last year\u2019s Alstom acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>The ARABELLE steam turbine wasted no time in setting a record at HPC. Already the largest steam turbine in operation for the past 10 years, the ARABELLE produces 2 percent more power output than a traditional configuration and has a 99.96 percent reliability rate. HPC\u2019s ARABELLE turbines will be the largest ever built \u2014 longer than an Airbus 380 \u2014 and capable of producing 1,770 MW each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Securing the UK&#8217;s energy future with carbon-free technology With an increase in power plants retirement by 2030, the UK is facing a critical challenge to secure and stabilise its energy production. The need for additional energy supply to secure the UK grid is now critical and the Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power plant is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":18330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,33,36,14,23],"tags":[1133,1134,1135,1136,1137,1138,1139,1140,1141,1142,1143,1144,1145],"class_list":["post-18329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-energy","category-green","category-more-news","category-united-kingdom","tag-alstom","tag-arabelle-steam-turbine","tag-co2-free-energy","tag-edf-energy","tag-energy-production","tag-epr-reactors","tag-ge","tag-hinkley-point-c","tag-low-carbon-electricity","tag-nuclear-power-plant","tag-nuclear-power-plant-development","tag-power-generation-capacity","tag-uk-grid"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}