Powering the Future Through Sustainable, Innovative Energy Solutions

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Powering the Future Through Sustainable, Innovative Energy Solutions
Solar Turbines, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is a leading
producer of industrial gas turbines and turbomachinery
packages in the 1 to 39 MW (1590 to 52,500 hp) range.
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Solar designs
and builds its proven line of compressor sets, mechanical-
drive packages and generator sets using state-of-the-
art operations certified by DNV to conform to the ISO
9001:2008 Quality Systems Standard.
Since Solar entered the industrial gas turbine business
in 1960 with the Saturn® turbine, Solar’s fleet has grown
to more than 16,000 units worldwide. These units have
logged more than 3 billion hours in more than 100 coun-
tries in some of the toughest, most challenging arctic,
desert, tropical and offshore environments. This unparal-
leled experience gives testimony to the robust design and
wide user acceptance of Solar’s products.
Industry Leader
for Gas Turbine Power
Solar’s compact, lightweight and durable gas turbines
offer the highest thermal efficiencies in their power
classes. Other advantages include ease of transport and
installation, long life, high performance, availability and
reliability.
Units in the Centaur®, Mercury™, Taurus™, Mars® and
Titan™ gas turbine families are available with Solar’s
pollution prevention SoLoNOx™ dry low emissions
combustion system. Customers have installed more than
3800 gas turbines with SoLoNOx, logging more than
487 million hours. Solar’s experience with dry, lean-
premixed combustion technology, designed to meet low
emissions regulations, is unmatched in the gas turbine
industry.