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Steam turbine generator: The first commercial Westinghouse steam turbine-driven generator, a 1,500 kW unit, began operation at Hartford Electric Light Co. in 1901. The machine, nicknamed Mary-Ann, was the first steam turbine generator to be installed by an electric utility to generate electricity in the US.
2020: Westinghouse acquires U.K. Inspection Consultants Limited (InCon) [43] and Rolls-Royce’s nuclear services division. [44] 2021: Westinghouse acquires Canadian firm Laveer Engineering; [45] Westinghouse acquires 50% of Tecnatom. [46] 2022: Westinghouse acquires BHI Energy [47] 2023: Acquisition by Brookfield Renewable Partners and Cameco.
The Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division (CTSD), part of Westinghouse Electric Corporation's [1] Westinghouse Power Generation [2] group, was originally located, along with the Steam Turbine Division (STD), in a major industrial manufacturing complex, referred to as the South Philadelphia Works, in Lester, Pennsylvania near to the Philadelphia International Airport.
Locomotives built or sold by the Westinghouse Electric Company. Westinghouse's transportation division (rail equipment) was founded 1894 and sold to AEG 1988, later merged into Adtranz and Bombardier. [1] [2] Production of locomotives ended after the early 1950s.
Union Switch & Signal (commonly referred to as US&S) was an American company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which focused on railway signaling equipment, systems and services. The company was acquired by Ansaldo STS (from 2015, Hitachi Rail STS ) in 1988, [ 1 ] operating as a wholly-owned company until January 2009, when US&S was renamed ...
Westinghouse's electric business directly competed with Thomas Edison's, who was promoting direct current (DC) electricity. Westinghouse Electric won the contract to showcase its AC system to illuminate the "White City" at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The company went on to install the world's first large-scale, AC power generation ...
Beaver Valley Power Station is a nuclear power plant on the Ohio River covering 1,000 acres (400 ha) near Shippingport, Pennsylvania, United States, 27 miles (43 km) roughly northwest of Pittsburgh. The plant is operated by Vistra Corp and power is generated by two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors.
Westinghouse: Cooling source: Braidwood Lake [a] Thermal capacity: 2 × 3686 MW th: Power generation; Units operational: 1 × 1194 MW 1 × 1160 MW: Make and model: WH 4-loop (DRYAMB) Nameplate capacity: 2386 MW: Capacity factor: 93.1% (2021) 89.55% (lifetime) Annual net output: 19,474 GWh (2021) External links; Website: Braidwood Generating ...