Genloop buys GE LMS100 gas turbine packages as principal, running, idle or mothballed, and handles the removal.
The GE LMS100 joins an aeroderivative core from the CF6-80 family to the low pressure compressor of GE’s 6FA heavy frame, with an intercooler between the two. GE launched it in 2003 and the first unit ran at Groton, South Dakota, in 2006. The PA was rated at about 103 MW, the PB at about 100 MW, and the current PA+ at about 116 MW, all at around 44 percent simple cycle efficiency. The power turbine drives the generator directly at 3,600 or 3,000 rpm; the grid is set by the first-stage power turbine nozzle, not a gearbox.
An LMS100 is a large package built around an engine that can be swapped. A buyer reads the two separately.
The PA and PA+ use a standard combustor with water injection; the PB and PB+ are dry low emissions. The PA+ upgrade adds up to 9 MW to a PA, so a buyer asks whether it has been done.
Hours and starts on the supercore since its last hot section and its last depot overhaul. GE’s schedule puts the hot section at 25,000 fired hours, done on site, and the depot overhaul of the hot section and power turbine at 50,000.
Which depot did the last overhaul and what was replaced. A lease or spare supercore can be installed in a few days, so the engine in the package today may not be the one it was delivered with.
The users group has tracked high pressure compressor stage 3 to 5 wear, intermediate pressure turbine frame hardware and power turbine stage 5 blades. A buyer asks which service bulletins have been incorporated.
The intercooler, air-to-water or air-to-air, the filter house, the generator, controls and step-up transformer. The package is large and the intercooler is unique to this machine, so a buyer checks that all of it is there.
The power turbine runs at 3,600 or 3,000 rpm with no gearbox, and the grid is set by a nozzle change. Genloop will take an LMS100 across frequencies, with the conversion priced in.
A 100 MW unit that reaches full load in ten minutes was designed for peaking. The same qualities now suit sites whose grid connection is years out.
Nearly half the early fleet went to California, where it covers evening ramps and is paid to be available.
A single block of 100 MW, on site and running before a grid connection is.
The air-to-air intercooler and the dry low emissions PB need little water, which opens sites a water-injected unit cannot use.
Direct drive at 3,000 or 3,600 rpm, which widens where a unit can go.
The short answers. The detail is in the contract, and in the call that comes before it.
It depends on the model, the supercore’s hours since its last hot section and depot overhaul, which service bulletins have been incorporated, how complete the package is including the intercooler, and its records. 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. The PA holds its emissions with water injection and the PB with dry low emissions combustors, and the two are priced on their own terms. Genloop looks at both, and at units with or without the PA+ upgrade.
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.
Yes. The power turbine drives the generator directly at 3,600 or 3,000 rpm with no gearbox, and the grid is set by the first-stage power turbine nozzle. The generator and transformer have to match. Genloop will take an LMS100 across frequencies, with the conversion priced in.
GE Vernova, through its aeroderivative service channel. Unlike the LM2500 and LM6000, the LMS100 has no independent depots, and the users group reported multi-year lead times on some parts in 2025. A buyer prices that in, and a unit with spares and an exchange supercore is worth more.
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.
PA, PA+, PB or PB+, supercore and package serial numbers, the intercooler type, fuel, and what is included.
Fired hours and starts on the supercore now installed, in total and since its last hot section and depot overhaul.
Depot reports for each overhaul or repair, the service bulletins incorporated, and any lease or exchange supercores that have run in the package.
Mark VIe or Woodward controls and their software level, water injection or dry low emissions, and any catalyst fitted.
The window in which the equipment must be gone, crane and road access, and any export or permit requirements.
Who owns the package and who owns the supercore, which are not always the same party, and what has to be released at closing.