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The primary application sounds like an on-demand electrical generator with fairly quick startup time - so they'll probably need to retain GTs or big piston engines for that duty. But they could also look at altenatives alongside to provide baseload/non critical power. Wind is probably too contentious, solar PV just too feeble to have much impact*. Heat pumps no good becuase you don't need heat. So I would look at some kind of alternative-fuelled power generation, potentially set up as CHP and exporting heat to a nearby housing/school/industry. Are the existing GT's set up for this or are they shudders open cycle? You could consider biomass CHP (e.g. wood chip boiler with steam turbine), waste vegetable oil fired CHP, anaerobic digestion of community waste, hydrogen fuel cells. I'm sure a scheme in there somewhere would wash its face financially, what with all the financial incentives at the mo.
*although no harm covering the roof in it since the Feed in Tariff is good right now.