Key facts
- Mitsubishi Power said the expansion adds 450,000 square feet to the existing 430,000 square foot Savannah Machinery Works site.
- Mitsubishi Power said the project would create more than 220 jobs in Chatham County, Georgia.
- Mitsubishi Heavy's large gas turbine backlog reached 35 GW, up from 23 GW a year earlier, per the report.
- Mitsubishi Heavy's energy systems division booked a 56% year-on-year rise in orders in its first fiscal quarter of 2026, per the report.
- CFO Hiroshi Nishio said in August that turbines ordered in the quarter carried delivery dates between 2028 and 2030, per the report.
- Mitsubishi Power said it aims to double gas turbine production capacity from 2024 levels, per the report.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plans to spend $490 million expanding gas turbine manufacturing and maintenance capacity at its Savannah Machinery Works factory in Pooler, Georgia, Nikkei reported on November 2, 2026. The company said the project would add 450,000 square feet to the existing 430,000 square foot site and create more than 220 jobs in Chatham County.
Mitsubishi Power, the group's power equipment unit, said it expected the new facilities to begin operating in early 2029. The plant began operations in 2010 as the company's first fully integrated gas turbine manufacturing facility outside Japan, delivered its first US-built turbine in 2012 and had supplied 50 advanced-class units by 2023, according to the report.
The expansion follows a rise in orders. Mitsubishi Heavy booked orders for 35 large gas turbines with combined capacity of 16 GW in fiscal 2025, plus another ten in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 from customers in the United States and Japan, according to the report. The large turbine backlog reached 35 GW, compared with 23 GW a year earlier, a rise of about 52%.
Mitsubishi Heavy's energy systems division recorded a 56% year-on-year increase in orders in the first fiscal quarter of 2026, the report said. Longer delivery times have accompanied the demand: CFO Hiroshi Nishio said at an August results presentation that turbines ordered in that quarter carried delivery dates between 2028 and 2030. Mitsubishi Power aims to double gas turbine production capacity from 2024 levels while keeping selective criteria for new contracts, according to the report.