Anyone heard any news about the Greenville site?
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God is sending Florence to help Schenectady.
It is a carnivore's nature to kill and eat meat.
Greenville has no foundry.
Hearing many people talking about meetings taking place with the company bringing the foundry back to Schenectady when the market picks up.
more bad news on the horizon boys. Be on the lookout, VA's pride and joy franchise machine is about to make news....in a really bad way
@UY6Y5Qq-2tkf, you are correct. TS7 is just a massive finger pointing forum cluster. It allows engineers to create power points blaming each other for the dung produced.
TS7 is not supposed to find problems. TS7 is only there to show how wonderful GE really is. There's no guts in GE to find problems. There's no recognition in fixing them.
@2rhf. The Greenville maintenance employees are too busy riding their golf carts to the Feaster Road woods to smoke. Who is managing these guys. The CEO leader of facilities should be terminated immediately for the lack of leadership.
There is, as usual, a tempest of disinformation being posted here, with the truth buried among the sound and the fury. Here's a rundown of actual facts:
No units are planned to be built in Greenville in 2019 (to date). Some spare parts production is planned.
The expensive TS7 is no longer seen as a major selling point for customers since the users groups have shared with each other all the problems that were not found during FSFL testing but at their sites causing real disruptions (including Wolf Hollow, Colorado Bend, Bhikki, etc)
Every time it rains, water pours in from roof leaks and collects on electrical equipment (including busbars and switchgear) often requiring interruption of processes due to the hazard. Despite this, there is no real effort to repair the leaks. Cells frequently address mechanical and other hazards within their control, but it is mostly a reactive approach. During this time of reduced production, it would have been beneficial to try to repair as much of the facility as possible, but this is not being done. It is a testament to the workers' care that serious injuries or fatalities don't occur more often.
With all that being said, no announcements have been made regarding Greenville's future, or its possible closing. No one who might actually have any knowledge of such an announcement has let anything slip, either. Any claims of a forthcoming announcement are pure speculation. However, anyone who has worked at GE for any length of time knows these announcements are made "out of the blue," because that is the GE way.
The Greenville facility is a dangerous dump. The infrastructure is old and too costly to maintain. Will all the extreme hazards in Greenville I am surprised there are not frequent fatalities.
On the statement that Greenville has the only H class test facility in the world. GE was late to the game,
Siemens test H class in Berlin and has been testing there since the late '90s/early 2000's, initially on F class.
MHI and the former Alstom both had their own power stations for new designs.
I can see Greenville being closed but it won’t be Friday lol
Reliable source says Greenville closing on Friday. Can anyone working there confirm?
So Greenville has no turbines scheduled to be made next year but schenectady is closing? Do you people even think before you post?
You do know schenectady has a gas turbine test bunker also
I heard they closed Greenville last week. Can anyone confirm?
Stokes will be involuntarily leaving GE very soon. His performance has been lackluster and knowledge of key Power business metrics are less than desired.
Most of the leadership that supported the Full Speed Full Load Test Empire in Greenville are gone. The extreme high cost and low gas turbine volume makes the test less appealing to bean counters. Expect the novelty to fade away rapidly.
Schenctady is doomed to closure within 5 years. The writing is clearly on the wall. Read it. The parasitic Union destroyed Schenctady. Unions achieved the same result in Detroit.
Mitsubishi Heavy Indistrial is planning to procure Siemens.
More layoffs are coming to Siemens, MHI, and GE Power. The gas turbine market simply cannot continue to pay the extreme overhead.
The work force maybe non union in sc. but the union does whatever the company want so and actually the labor costs are actually cheaper in Schenectady believe it or not now
Indeed, @1plc , expect them to make the worst possible choice. That's basically one of the GE Beliefs. They certainly have a business case for closing Greenville, especially since there are now zero units planned to be built there next year.
Closing Greenville and moving back to Schenectady seems unlikely. Besides the cost advantages others mentioned is this: Greenville has the only Full-Speed Full-Load test facility in the world for Heavy Duty (H-class) Gas Turbines. This facility is a critical differentiator to GE's competition. Re-creating that facility in Schenectady would be extremely expensive.
Schenectady taxes are some of the lowest for ge sites in the usa. Much more educated work force compared to down South with the ability to get products out quicker with a better focus on quality. Wouldn't surprise me if they made such a move. It would take a few years for sure though. Having Steam and Gas together in the same location makes sence especially with the combine cycle etc.
You can always thrust GE leadership making the worst choice
Everybody with an education wants out of NY and is leaving first chance they get! There is no talent here. You can live better down south without question. Go look at what $200K can buy you down there and checkout the taxes, then get back to me. Schenectady is a dumping ground for depression. You'd know that if you had the ability to see from outside of your own blinding a-holes!! If GE had to pick a place to put the whole Schenectady campus today, it sure as heck wouldn't be Schenectady!
No way they would move out of Greenville. The workforce is non union, taxes are lower, talent loss would be huge and in spite of the downturn GT's will remain the business focus. Nearly 20 yrs ago, Pratt moved their out of their West Palm Beach location to consolidate in Hartford and lost a lot of staff and talent to GE and others. Took them years to recover. Same thing would happen if they moved out of Greenville.
GE Leadership loves the Union in Schenectady... Hold your breath on this one! LOL!!!!
The company has known for years that moving gas turbine out of Schenectady was a huge mistake. The talks are long over due.
Talks within the last couple months of slowly shutting down Greenville and moving back to Schenectady within a few years. Power wants one centralized location for both gas and steam and everyone seems to be talking about Schenectady.
In talks to close the site down