A history of the Western Turbine Users Inc, the world’s largest independent organization for gas-turbine owner/operators was published by CCJ and distributed at the organization’s 25th anniversary meeting at the Long Beach Convention Center, March 15-18, 2015. You can access this special publication via the links below.
Major contributors to the commemorative publication included Wayne Kawamoto, then WTUI treasurer and plant manager of Corona Cogen; Mike Raaker, WTUI’s historian and ambassador, and president of Raaker Services LLC; Sal DellaVilla, CEO of Strategic Power Systems Inc; Mark Axford, president of Axford Turbine Consultants LLC; Jason Makansi, president of Pearl Street; and Steve Johnson, president of SJ Turbine Inc.
1. Before incorporation, Mike Raaker
2. After incorporation, Sal DellaVilla
3. Legislative drivers of GT technology, Jason Makansi
5. A turbine salesman remembers, Mark Axford
6. WTUI’s place in gas-turbine, power-industry history, Wayne Kawamoto and Mike Raaker
7. Aero engine portfolio highlights, Team GE
8. Profiles of the authorized service providers: ANZGT, TCT, IHI, MTU, provided by the ASPs
