N ew industrial gas turbines – the core of any large-scale power station – cost around $30-50 million, while buying them second-hand can reduce the price by up to a third. Snapping up used European turbines is particularly attractive for plant operators in...
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N ew industrial gas turbines – the core of any large-scale power station – cost around $30-50 million, while buying them second-hand can reduce the price by up to a third. Snapping up used European turbines is particularly attractive for plant operators in Turkey or Eastern Europe. "There is a liquid global market for gas turbines," RWE deputy CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz told reporters in Berlin, suggesting transport costs would be "entirely marginal". Essen-headquartered RWE has published a list of gas and coal plants with a total capacity of nearly 6,000 MW that have been forced to idle or close. Chief executive Peter Terium is keen to balance a reported net loss of €2.8 billion and hopes to generate about €500 million from services and decentralised energy by the end of the decade. Dismantle and ship the plant abroad – a last resort? As profit margins for burning gas are forecast to stay in the doldrums in most of continental Europe, operators ultimately prefer to dismantle mothballed p
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