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Article: New turbine to generate jobs.(Business)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Byline: Kaitlin Strohschein; Seattle Times staff reporter
Published-correction date: 10/12/2009. This story on Seattle Steam should have said its combined power turbine can generate 50 megawatts, rather than megawatt-hours. Also, the plant is located on Post Avenue, not Post Street.
Seattle Steam stopped producing electricity in 1925. Now it plans to start again, installing an advanced turbine that generates heat and power in its historic Post Street plant, one of the oldest working buildings in downtown Seattle.
The combined turbine will sit in the building's hot, dirty second story, where a coal-fueled electric generator ran more than 80 ...