Genloop buys ABB and Alstom GT13E2 gas turbines and the combined cycle plants built around them as principal, and handles the removal.
The GT13E2 is a heavy-frame E-class gas turbine that ABB first ran in October 1993, Alstom built from 2000, and GE has supported since it bought Alstom’s power business in 2015. It was launched at 165 MW; the 2005 rating makes 185 MW, the 2012 rating over 200 MW at 38 percent efficiency, and the MXL2 retrofit takes an older unit to 188 MW. Its annular combustor with EV burners holds NOx below 25 ppm on gas without water. It turns at 3,000 rpm for 50 Hz grids.
Two GT13E2s of the same year can be far apart in price. These are the reasons.
A 165 MW unit from the 1990s, a 2005-rating unit at 185 MW and a 2012-rating unit at over 200 MW are priced as different machines, and an MXL2 retrofit moves an older unit up the list.
Equivalent operating hours since the last C inspection, not total hours. Alstom set the interval at 24,000 equivalent hours in power-optimised mode and 36,000 in maintenance mode; MXL2 hardware reaches 48,000.
The GT13E2 can be run at 95 percent load to stretch its intervals by half. A buyer asks how the unit was run, because the answer sets how far it is from its next outage.
The original 72 EV burners, the 48-burner AEV upgrade, or the EV-Alpha burner at 15 ppm NOx. Dual fuel units that switch to oil on load have more places they can go.
GE Vernova carries the upgrade catalogue and Sulzer runs C inspections and makes its own hot gas path parts. A frame with two sources of parts is easier to place.
Units were delivered on ABB Egatrol or Alstom Alspa controls, and many have since moved to Mark VIe or Ovation. The controls, the generator, the step-up transformer and, in combined cycle, the HRSG and steam turbine are priced with the unit.
A new E-class machine for a 50 Hz grid is years away. An installed GT13E2 that can be moved does not wait in that queue.
A two-on-one block makes over 500 MW at around 54 percent, relocated where a new plant would take years.
The fleet runs from Russia to the Gulf, and firm 50 Hz capacity is short in both.
Gas from many sources, with a switch to oil on load, for grids where supply is not certain.
Europe, Africa, most of Asia and the Middle East, Australia and the southern cone of South America run at 50 Hz.
The short answers. The detail is in the contract, and in the call that comes before it.
It depends on the rating, where the unit sits in its inspection cycle and how it was run, the burner and control systems, who has serviced it, and whether it sells with the plant around it. No public database records what used turbines actually sell for, so advertised prices are asking prices. Genloop makes a firm offer after its own engineers have inspected the unit.
Yes. ABB introduced the machine in 1993, Alstom built it from 2000, and GE took over the fleet in 2015. GE Vernova supports all of them, and Genloop buys all of them.
Yes. Genloop buys GT13E2 units on their own, as complete generating sets, and as combined cycle blocks with the HRSG, steam turbine, generators and transformers, bought whole and relocated whole.
Yes. Genloop buys units that are running, idle or mothballed. A unit that has been mothballed for several years is looked at case by case.
No. The GT13E2 turns at 3,000 rpm and makes 50 Hz, and it cannot be economically converted. Its buyers are in 50 Hz markets: Europe, Africa, most of Asia and the Middle East, Australia and the southern cone of South America.
Genloop does. Dismantling, export compliance and transport are Genloop’s scope, insured throughout, and written into the same contract as the purchase. The site is handed back on the schedule the contract sets.
No. Genloop buys as principal and takes title, so there is no fee, no marketing period and no waiting for a buyer to appear.
Every enquiry is read by the people who inspect, value and buy the equipment, and answered directly. Owners rarely have everything; send what exists and Genloop fills the gaps on site.
Rating (1993, 2005 or 2012, or MXL2), serial number, fuel, burner type, and what is included: generator, transformer, HRSG, steam turbine, balance of plant.
Equivalent operating hours and starts, in total and since the last C inspection, and the operating mode the unit ran in.
The last A, B and C inspections, with dates, who did them and open findings. Gaps are normal; say where they are.
MXL2, AEV or EV-Alpha done or not, the control system, and whether the unit ran under a service agreement.
The window in which the equipment must be gone, crane and road access, and any export or permit requirements.
Who owns the equipment, and what has to be released at closing.