With huge quantities of oil unfortunately escaping from a well in the Gulf of Mexico, with pollution problems involved in the mining and use of coal, and with U.S. and worldwide demands for the generation of more power, our Chattanooga area is most fortunate that Alstom Power is investing $300 million and adding 350 jobs to the 600 it already has here — emphasizing a strategy of “clean power.”
Alstom’s numerous Chattanooga employees will be building steam turbines, turbo-generators and related equipment for fossil fuel and nuclear power generation.
Half of the power plants in the United States have Alstom equipment. Alstom’s products are applicable to nuclear, hydro, natural gas, coal and wind applications, with solutions for the reduction of pollutants.
We are glad that the expansion of Alstom’s Chattanooga operations will result in great benefits through additional jobs for our people and a huge boost to the local economy, and that it will provide needed products for power generation worldwide.