Generators

Cutsforth recently held two technical webinars, one on brush failures and another on generator field monitoring. Taken together, they made a point many plants already know in their bones: generator-side trouble usually does not arrive out of nowhere. More often it builds in the gaps between inspections, in spots that are hard to see, awkward […]

Water-cooled stator windings have been in commercial service since the early 1960s and remain common on large machines, generally those above about 400 MW. Dr. Robert Svoboda, speaking in the May 26 IAPWS Power Cycle Chemistry webinar on generator cooling-water chemistry, put the installed base at roughly 2000 water-cooled stators outside Russia and China, about

A life built on reliability Clyde V. Maughan died Feb. 7, 2026, at age 99, leaving behind the sort of record the power industry rarely sees and never forgets. He earned a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Idaho in 1950, joined General Electric in Schenectady that same year, spent 36 years with

Insights into the value of a proactive approach to planning a full stator rewind to prevent costly failures and extend the operational life of the 7FH2 generator By Joe Hopfinger, ENTRUST Solutions Group  The GE 7FH2 generator remains one of the most widely deployed machines in gas-fired power generation. Introduced in the mid-1990s, nearly 1,000 units have been placed