General Electric LM2500XPRESS

The LM2500XPRESS is a packaged power plant that GE Vernova builds around its LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbine, designed so that most of the work is done in the factory rather than on site. About 95 percent of it is assembled in advance into ten simplified modules, with 27 electrical interconnects against more than 130 for a traditional plant, and the maker says it can be installed in as little as two weeks with a small crew, or commissioned in about 30 days. In simple cycle each unit is rated at 34 MW with efficiency up to 39.5 percent, and in combined cycle up to 47 MW and 54.4 percent, for either 50 or 60 hertz grids. It first drew attention as the machine chosen for RWE's 300 MW grid reserve plant at Biblis in Germany, an order for 11 units, and the units for Colorado Springs Utilities, six at 34 MW each, were the first expected in North America. Later orders include 29 packages for Crusoe data centers, close to 1 GW in total.