LM2500 Mobile Generating Pair
Two complete mobile generating plants, each built around a General Electric LM2500 gas turbine driving a 22,375 kVA generator at 13.8 kV. Roughly 7,000 hours on distillate, stored and unoperated for eight years, inspected and fired at an OEM-authorized U.S. depot. The package nameplate rates each plant at 17.0 MW continuous at 59°F and 10.9 MW at 120°F, sea level. Sold as-is, delivered into the United States.
The offering
This is a barn-find, and it is described here as one. Two mobile plants were bought roughly eight years ago by a turbine-service company, never put into service, and sent to an OEM-authorized depot in San Diego only to be inspected, minimally repaired and fired. They have sat since. The current owner maintains machines of this class for a living and has concluded it has no time to finish these, so they are being sold as they stand.
Halyard holds an exclusive, binding right to sell both plants. No other party can market, option or transact them. We are the principal: one accountable counterparty, one contract, funds through attorney escrow.
What a buyer is taking on is stated plainly. The packages date from 1980 and were originally built for a Middle East oil producer; the package is rated 17.0 MW continuous at 59°F and 10.9 MW at 120°F; the control retrofit is part-finished, well advanced on one plant and barely started on the other; and gas capability does not exist today and must be bought. Everything we know is published — photographs, nameplates, original drawings and depot findings. There is nothing further to disclose under an NDA because there is nothing withheld.
- Engine serial numbers, nameplate data, drawings and depot records published in full — nothing behind an NDA
- Rated from the package nameplate, not a brochure: 17.0 MW continuous per plant at 59°F, 19.5 MW peak, and 10.9 MW continuous at 120°F — the full ambient curve, not just the headline figure
- Three self-contained modules per plant on their own trailers, with black-start capability
- Liquid-fuelled with a standard annular combustor today; gas and dual-fuel routes priced with the OEM
Quick reference
| Engine | General Electric LM2500, model 7LM2500-PC-1036 (marine corrosion-resistant) |
| Engine serial numbers | ESN 481-426 and ESN 481-427 |
| Package | Penske Power Systems PPS/GE15 — three-module, trailer-mounted, black-start capable |
| Turbine output | ≈ 22,000 kW |
| Generator | ≈ 17,900 kW at 0.80 PF ISO base · ≈ 19,300 kW at 0.85 PF · 22,375 kVA · 13,800 V, 3-phase, 60 Hz |
| Package rating (nameplate) | Continuous, sea level: 17.0 MW at 59°F · 10.9 MW at 120°F. Peak, sea level: 19.5 MW at 59°F. Power factor 0.90 |
| Combined | 34.0 MW continuous for the pair at 59°F, sea level |
| Package serial | Penske Power Systems PPS/GE15B1, S/N 0068; purchase order YM-W98-32-2501-UA |
| Hours | ≈ 7,000 on distillate; unoperated for approximately eight years |
| Fuel and combustion | Distillate, standard annular combustor. No gas train fitted. Dual-fuel, water injection and DLE routes under budgetary quotation with GE Vernova |
| Controls | Retrofit to GE/Emerson RX3i in progress — approximately 70% complete on one plant, 10% on the other |
| Depot history | Inspected, minimally repaired and fired at an OEM-authorized depot, San Diego; reports published in the data room |
| Package vintage | 1980, originally built for a Middle East oil producer; original drawing set published |
| Delivery | Shipped anywhere in the lower 48. Present location is released on execution of the confidentiality and non-circumvention agreement. |
| Price | US$39,000,000 for one unit · US$60,000,000 for both, as-is, delivered into the United States |
| Commercial | Sale as principal under exclusive contract. Attorney escrow. Buyer contract is a pass-through of the terms on which Halyard acquires — fixed, and not negotiable except as to price |