POWER NEED
Heber Light & Power, a customer-owned utility based in Heber City, Utah is a long-time Caterpillar Electric Power customer with a variety of Cat generator sets including two G3516C, three G3520C, two G3516A, one G3516H, and one G3520H with a total capacity of 13MW. Heber Light & Power is an inter-local government entity owned by Heber, Midway, and Charleston, Utah.
“The Heber utility is located at 5,600 feet altitude,” said Norlen. “This altitude level would normally take a natural gas engine and knock its performance in the dirt, but this G3520 has pulled 2.5 MW from the moment it came in – which is impressive.”
SOLUTION
“We’ve tested many units for Caterpillar and work closely with their engineering group,” said Jason Norlen, general manager of Heber Light & Power. The G3520 was installed last year, and since then we’ve run over 5,000 hours on it. It’s running extremely well at 2.5 MW at 1 g/bhp-hr NOx emissions. One of the benefits of our arrangement with Caterpillar is getting to see innovative new products like this one before they’re even on the market. I’ve never seen a gas unit perform like this one. It’s torquey like a diesel, and it’s very comparable to a diesel unit with how fast it responds and takes load on.”
| G3516C | G3520C | G3516H | G3520H |
