Genloop buys GE 7EA gas turbines as principal, running, idle or mothballed, and handles the removal.
The GE 7EA, now designated 7E.03, is a heavy-frame E-class gas turbine of roughly 80 to 90 MW in simple cycle. It is direct drive at 3,600 rpm, so it serves 60 Hz grids and cannot be economically converted to 50 Hz.
Two 7EAs with the same nameplate and the same total hours can be far apart in price. These are the reasons.
Hours and starts since the last hot gas path inspection and the last major, not total hours. GE’s guidance for the 7E.03 puts the hot gas path inspection at 24,000 factored hours or 1,200 factored starts, and the major at 48,000 hours or 2,400 starts.
A turbine sold with its generator, auxiliaries, controls and step-up transformer is a plant a buyer can install. A bare turbine is a component that needs everything else sourced, matched and commissioned.
Mark V and Mark VI panels are out of production, and the Mark VIe has been the current system since around 2003. A buyer with a Mark V unit prices in the upgrade.
A unit with dry low NOx combustors fitted can meet a modern permit. A unit on standard combustors needs a retrofit or a site that can permit it, and both narrow the buyer pool.
Operating logs, inspection reports and parts pedigree. Without them a buyer prices as if the worst case were true. With a unit that has no inspection history, Genloop inspects first and prices after.
A buyer prices the machine delivered. A unit near a port on good roads is worth more than the same unit inland behind a bridge weight limit.
The 7EA is one of the frames that can drop into a project that cannot wait for a new machine.
Baseload for sites whose load arrives before the grid connection or the new-build queue can serve it.
Independent producers adding capacity on a schedule a new heavy frame cannot meet.
Capacity that carries a system until new generation arrives.
The Americas, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and about half of Japan run at 60 Hz.
The short answers. The detail is in the contract, and in the call that comes before it.
It depends on where the unit sits in its maintenance cycle, whether it sells as a complete generating set, its controls and combustion system, its records and its location. No public database records what used heavy frames actually sell for, so advertised prices are asking prices. Genloop makes a firm offer after its own engineers have inspected the unit.
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.
Either. Genloop buys a 7EA as a complete generating set, with its generator, auxiliary skids, inlet and exhaust, controls and step-up transformer, or as a combined cycle block with the HRSG and steam turbine, bought whole and relocated whole. It also buys new, new-old-stock and reconditioned 7EA capital parts with records.
No. The 7EA is direct drive at 3,600 rpm and makes 60 Hz, and it cannot be economically converted. Its buyers are in 60 Hz markets: the Americas, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and about half of Japan.
Fired hours and starts, the dates of the last hot gas path inspection and the last major, the combustor type, the controls generation, and what is included with the turbine. Gaps are normal and Genloop fills them on site.
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.
Model and serial number, rating, fuel, and what is included: generator, transformer, HRSG, balance of plant.
Fired hours, starts and trips, and the duty the unit ran: base load, peaking, standby.
The last combustion, hot gas path and major inspections, with dates and open findings. Gaps are normal; say where they are.
Dry low NOx or standard combustors, and Mark V, Mark VI or Mark VIe controls.
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.