Genloop buys Wartsila engine power plants as principal, on gas, heavy fuel oil or dual fuel, and handles the removal.
A Wartsila power plant is a row of medium-speed reciprocating engines, each driving its own generator. The 32 and 34 series make up to about 9.8 MW per engine and the 46 and 50 series about 17 to 18.9 MW, on gas, heavy fuel oil, diesel or both. Because the plant is modular it can be dismantled, moved and rebuilt engine by engine.
An engine plant is priced engine by engine and then as a whole. These are the things a buyer looks at.
A 20V32 on heavy fuel oil, a 20V34SG on gas and an 18V50DF on either are different assets. The model, the cylinder count and the fuel decide who the buyers are.
Engine maintenance runs on running hours, with no penalty for the number of starts on Wartsila’s gas engines. A buyer asks for the hours on each engine, in total and since its last major overhaul.
Heavy fuel oil is harder on an engine than gas, and the overhauls come sooner. A buyer reads what each engine burned alongside its hours.
Wartsila converts 32 engines to 34SG or 34DF and 46 engines to 50SG or 50DF. Whether a liquid fuel engine can be converted changes where it can go next, and the earliest 46 engines cannot take the full conversion.
Engines and generators, and with them the fuel treatment, radiators, exhaust and catalysts, switchgear, step-up transformers, controls, spares and tooling. A complete plant is rebuilt. A partial one has to be engineered again.
The 32 and 34 turn at 750 rpm for 50 Hz and 720 rpm for 60 Hz, and the 50 series at 500 and 514. A generating set built for one grid does not go to the other as it stands.
New engine plants are being ordered for data centers by the hundreds of megawatts. An existing plant that can be moved is ready sooner.
Many engines in parallel, so the plant keeps running with one down for maintenance.
Fast-start capacity beside wind and solar: synchronized in seconds and at full load in minutes.
Baseload where there is no grid to lean on and the fuel arrives by ship or truck.
Captive plants for process sites, added to one engine at a time as the load grows.
The short answers. The detail is in the contract, and in the call that comes before it.
It depends on the engine model and fuel, the running hours on each engine since its last major overhaul, how complete the plant is, and its records. No public database records what used engine plants actually sell for, so advertised prices are asking prices. Genloop makes a firm offer after its own engineers have inspected the plant.
Plants from 15 MW. Genloop buys multi-engine plants on gas, heavy fuel oil or diesel, with their balance of plant, spares and tooling.
Both. Genloop buys engine plants on gas, heavy fuel oil, diesel and dual fuel.
Yes. Genloop buys plants that are running, idle or mothballed. A plant that has been mothballed for several years is looked at case by case.
The engine models and serial numbers, running hours on each engine in total and since its last major overhaul, the overhaul reports, the fuels burned, and a list of what is included. 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.
Engine model and count (for example 6 × 18V46), serial numbers, frequency, plant rating, and the fuels burned.
Hours on each engine, in total and since its last major overhaul.
Overhaul reports, major component replacements, and whether the plant ran under a service agreement.
Generators, auxiliaries, fuel treatment, radiators, exhaust and catalysts, transformers, controls, spares and tooling.
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.