Gas Turbine Operating Engineers are in demand for gas fired peaking power plants. Gas turbines or combustion turbines as they are also called as well as simple cycle.
These gas turbines can be brought on-line producing 100s of MW in minutes when a wind-farm looses its wind or a cloud shades a photovoltic region. So, this is especially important with more and more usage of photovoltic and wind power generators that cannot power a manufacturing base of a country or a large population since they are dependent on weather and more importantly solar activities. Therefore, being a gas turbine 3rd Class, 2nd Class or 1st Class Gas Turbine Engineer is important to off-set the loss of base load fossil fuel power stations to meet the demand of the electric power grids.
Gas turbines come is three difference or basic catagories: Large frame combustion turbines, large aero-derivative gas turbines, and micro-turbines. Areo-derivative gas turbines are uses as a rule for peaking power stations.
