About Us
A power infrastructure developer building dedicated behind-the-meter generation for the loads that cannot wait on the utility grid.
Meet Our Leadership
Leading with execution, technical depth, and capital discipline, our team develops power infrastructure for America's most demanding growth sectors.
Chairman & CEO
Leads Smartland Energy's strategic direction across power infrastructure development, capital formation, and project execution. Combines long term infrastructure planning with disciplined capital markets strategy to drive complex, large scale energy developments from concept through operation.
Director, Land Acquisition
Leads land acquisition and site transaction management for Smartland Energy's power infrastructure projects. With deep experience across commercial and industrial real estate transactions, Irina oversees the full site acquisition lifecycle, from initial site identification and due diligence through contract execution and closing.
Corporate Counsel
Kevin Stanek is an attorney with deep experience in both private and public practice. He has advised both the government and private sector clients on a range of policy and regulatory matters, Kevin also brings experience with transactional matters, public finance and economic development.
Mission
Smartland Energy develops dedicated BTM power for hyperscale data centers and AI operations, large industrial campuses, defense installations, and the critical defense industrial base. We build the energy backbone for the loads that drive American technological and industrial growth - and we do it where the utility grid cannot, will not, or should not be the answer.
Track Record
Our team has played key roles on more than 10 GW of installed power capacity globally, across gas, coal, and renewable technologies. That experience includes:
- A 1,200 MW combined-cycle gas plant in South Korea, where team members advised on commissioning strategy and high-efficiency thermal integration through Foster Wheeler
- A 600 MW gas turbine facility in Texas, supported under Vistra Energy
- A 1,450 MW supercritical coal facility in the Philippines with Aboitiz Power, where our senior advisor led site-wide commissioning across boilers, turbines, and seawater conversion systems
- More than ten projects in China and Southeast Asia involving GE turbines, anthracite PC boilers, and CFB systems through Foster Wheeler's global deployment teams
- U.S.-based modernization and startup leadership at plants such as Longview (770 MW, WV) and Sandow 5 (2x330 MW, TX)
This is the foundation under Smartland's current portfolio of distributed, BTM generation assets - modular RICE units where ramp and rolling maintenance matter, combined-cycle gas turbines where steady high-efficiency baseload best fits the load.
Capital Discipline
Smartland Energy is backed by Smartland, an established private equity platform active across real estate and energy infrastructure, and we run our development process with the same capital discipline applied to institutional-grade infrastructure investments. We integrate capital, generation technology, gas supply, permitting, land acquisition, and regulatory strategy under one roof rather than splitting them across uncoordinated counterparties - which means schedule, cost, and contractual structure are managed against the same sheet of paper.
We structure offtakes for diligence - clear POD boundary, revenue-grade metering, contractable SLA terms, defined remedies, and milestone-backed credit support - so procurement, finance, and lender review can move forward without re-engineering the package.
Execution
Power online approximately 24 months from Notice to Proceed. Initial capacity is targeted to come online in Q3 2028. Active development includes site evaluations and bids in Ohio (Muskingum River and additional locations), Minnesota (Brainerd Hydroelectric clean repurposing evaluation), Virginia (Tazewell County), and other locations under review. We are engaged with regulators, local stakeholders, and policy bodies through industry symposiums, congressional delegations, and forums including the Ohio Energy Symposium, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and bipartisan briefings on Capitol Hill.
We recently announced a strategic partnership with Hadron Energy on micro-modular reactors as a forward-looking generation pathway. Our near-term focus is on bringing modular RICE and combined-cycle gas projects through development and into commercial operation.