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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nOn Tuesday, a CSX railcar derailed along Centurion Drive. One of the rail beds tilted 90 degrees sending RICE power generator crashing down on top of adjacent tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThere were no reported injuries or damage to private property as a result of the accident, LE spokeswoman Cathryn Lacy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It was very close to its final destination,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Response teams and insurance representatives have arrived on-site and are evaluating the extent of damage to the RICE power generator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is not immediately clear what was the cause of the train derailment, Lacy said. Lakeland Electric is currently awaiting of video footage of the incident hoping to learn more. The municipal-owned utility will provide an update with more details as they become available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“All of the units are fully insured,” Lacy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crews from the unit’s German-based manufacturer, MAN, are working around the clock with LE to make sure the utility’s project can move forward with as little disruption as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The five other RICE power generators have made the journey of more than 4,000 miles from the manufacturing plant in St. Nazaire, France to Lakeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The utility’s next step is installing these generators into the McIntosh Reciprocating Engine Plant over the course of the next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each natural-gas-powered unit is capable of producing up to 20 megawatts of electricity, for a total capacity of 120 megawatts of power to Lakeland Electric customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos by Lakeland Electric <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A train transporting\u00a0Lakeland Electric’s\u00a0new RICE generators to the McIntosh Power Plant derailed Tuesday on city-owned property damaging one of the six units. On Tuesday, a CSX railcar derailed along Centurion… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[6372],"class_list":["post-37411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-train-carrying-lakeland-electrics-new-rice-power-generators-derails-oops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37417,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37411\/revisions\/37417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/train-2.jpeg?resize=580%2C386&ssl=1\")
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