First gas-turbine power station (Neuchâtel)
Primera central eléctrica con turbina de gas (Neuchâtel)
- Date
- 1939 · confidence high
- Place
- Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Credited to
- Brown Boveri
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A 4 MW Brown Boveri gas turbine entered service in Neuchâtel to provide the town with backup electricity. It was the first gas-turbine power set.
An earlier application for a locomotive existed (1941, also Brown Boveri); the Neuchâtel unit dates from 1939.
What it led to
- gas turbines for power plants
- combined cycle
- aircraft jet engines