Canada has a lot of natural gas and limited ways to get rid of it all. This creates excellent opportunities for natural gas electrical power generation. LEC provided a “double wide” E-house that operates at 4160V.
Thule Air Base is solely powered by diesel power generation, running on JP-8 jet fuel. Their generators date back to the 50’s and 60’s, and are highly reliable medium speed machines with many, many runtime hours on them.