Less is more: Why gas turbines will transform electric utilities

Gas turbine generating units offer many advantages. They include the use of the Brayton cycle, a simple design which does not use water or steam in operation, reducing costs significantly. Gas turbines also offer a shorter construction cycle, a improved capacity factor as fewer megawatts need to be installed to achieve the same loss of load probability, and a overall efficiency that routinely beat large steam cycle plants. Gas turbines will speed up the move from regulation to competition in the electric power industry.