TCO Calculator

Estimate your saving from switching to the Bladon MTG12

Plug in your site fuel use, fuel price, and service-visit cost. We'll compare a typical diesel genset to the Bladon microturbine - MTG12 or MTP40 - over a year and over the design life. The MTG12 uses a comparable number of litres to a diesel genset: the fuel saving comes from running a cheaper fuel and losing less of it to theft.

30 to 50 percent fuel cost saving typical. Basis: brochure case studies. Switching a site from diesel to a kerosene and heating oil mix cut fuel cost by 35 percent, and a site with reduced fuel theft cut operating cost by 50 percent. The saving depends on the diesel-to-kerosene price gap in your market, and we will model it for your site.

Which unit?

The MTG12 (in production - available now) suits single-phase loads up to 12 kW.

Region preset

Presets pre-fill typical figures - edit any field for your site.

Your inputs

Diesel genset fuel use (litres/day)

Typical 12 kW telecom site: 25 to 40 L/day

Bladon MTG12 fuel use (litres/day)

Defaults to the same litres as the diesel genset, because the saving is on fuel price and fuel loss and not on litres burned. If you are replacing an oversized diesel that runs lightly loaded, enter a lower figure here and the model will show it.

Diesel fuel price (£ / litre)

Bladon MTG12 fuel price (£ / litre)

The MTG12 runs cheaper fuels such as kerosene or paraffin, at the same efficiency as diesel. It uses a comparable number of litres to a diesel genset of the same rating, so the saving lands on the price per litre. The saving depends on the diesel-to-kerosene price gap in your market, and we will model it for your site.

Diesel lost to theft (% of fuel delivered per year)

Diesel is stolen because it is worth taking: it can be used in any vehicle or generator, and it has a resale market.

Bladon fuel lost to theft (% of fuel delivered per year)

Kerosene, paraffin and blends have little or no resale value, and they cannot be used in any vehicle or generator, so there is no route to sell what is taken. That removes most of the incentive without eliminating it. Set this to zero for the optimistic case.

Diesel service visits per year

Typical: 8 to 24 per year. The MTG12 needs 1 per year.

Cost per service visit (£)

Engineer time + travel + parts. Higher for remote sites.

Capital cost (optional - only used for payback)

MTG12 installed capital cost (£)

Leave blank to compare operating cost only. Ask sales for pricing on your configuration.

Diesel genset installed capital cost (£)

Payback is the extra capital over this alternative, recovered by the annual saving.

Diesel genset design life (hours)

Used to count whole replacements inside the 7 year period. Typical band is 15,000 to 25,000 hours.

MTG12 design life (hours)

Published design life is 45,000 hours. Replacement is costed only where a capital cost has been entered above.

Your saving

Annual saving with Bladon MTG12

£7,177

41% lower annual operating cost

7-year saving, including replacement

£50,240

Payback period

Enter a capital cost

Add a capital cost on the left and we will show how quickly the saving repays it.

Payback uses the annual operating saving only, so it is conservative: replacement is shown separately below.

Diesel annual cost£17,583

Fuel burned£12,045

Fuel stolen (10%)£1,338

Service£4,200

Bladon MTG12 annual cost£10,406

Fuel burned£9,855

Fuel stolen (2%)£201

Service (1 visit/yr)£350

Replacement over 7 years

Diesel genset reaches design life2.3 years

Diesel replacements in the period3

MTG12 reaches design life5.1 years

MTG12 replacements in the period1

Enter a capital cost for either option and we will cost these replacements. Until then this line is zero and the figures above are operating cost only.

A two-page branded PDF with your own inputs, the cost comparison against diesel, the payback period and the full assumptions - ready to forward to whoever signs off the budget.

Send yourself the figures and assumptions - a Bladon engineer will follow up with a site-specific TCO.

Download your payback report

A two-page branded PDF with your own figures on it: your site parameters, the year-by-year cost comparison against diesel, the payback period, and the full assumptions and basis behind the numbers. Written to be forwarded to a budget holder.

Email me these results

We will send this calculation through, with every input and assumption written out, so you can share it internally - and a Bladon engineer will follow up with a site-specific TCO. Your figures above stay on screen either way.

What gets sent

MTG12, UK preset. Diesel £17,583/yr vs Bladon £10,406/yr. Annual saving £7,177 (41%), seven-year saving £50,240, of which £1,338 a year is diesel theft removed.

Assumptions and limits of this calculator

The microturbine's saving is a fuel cost saving, and it comes from three things: it runs cheaper fuels (typically kerosene or paraffin) at the same efficiency as diesel, so the price per litre falls; it needs one service visit per year instead of monthly visits; and it is resilient to fuel theft, because kerosene and mixed fuels have little resale value. The microturbine uses a comparable number of litres to a diesel genset of the same rating, and no reduction in fuel consumption is assumed. Basis: brochure case studies. Switching a site from diesel to a kerosene and heating oil mix cut fuel cost by 35 percent, and a site with reduced fuel theft cut operating cost by 50 percent.
The saving depends on the diesel-to-kerosene price gap in your market, and we will model it for your site.
Compares operating cost - fuel, fuel lost to theft, and scheduled service. Capital cost is excluded from the operating comparison and is used only to derive the payback period, where you enter it.
Theft is entered separately for each side, as a share of the fuel delivered to that side, so the litres you enter are the litres actually burned. The Bladon default is low but not zero: the blended and low-value fuels the turbine runs cannot be dropped into a vehicle, used in another generator, or resold, so there is no route to sell what is taken, which removes most of the incentive without eliminating it. Either figure can be set to zero.
Assumes 365 days/year continuous operation at the rates you enter.
Replacement is now modelled. At 8,760 run hours a year, a 45,000 hours design life is reached at 5.1 years, and a diesel genset at 15,000 to 25,000 hours is reached two to four times inside the same period. The model counts whole replacements only, and it costs them at the capital figures you enter, so it shows nothing on this line until you enter them.
Replacement assumes the unit is replaced rather than overhauled, which is normal practice at this size. If your operation overhauls instead, enter the overhaul cost in place of the capital cost.
Figures are indicative. For a site-specific TCO accounting for your fuel logistics, theft exposure and load profile, talk to sales.