What Smartland is doing - site visits, regulatory engagement, partnerships, and public commentary.
For a development-stage power infrastructure company, visible activity matters. The posts below document where our team is on the ground (Ohio site evaluations, Tazewell County VA, Brainerd MN), where we are engaging at the policy level (Ohio Energy Symposium, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, bipartisan delegation on Capitol Hill), and the partnerships we are building (including our early investment in Hadron Energy and a planned program of up to five micro-modular reactor projects). Procurement and lender diligence teams should expect to find this kind of activity for any developer they take seriously - and to be skeptical of any developer they don't find it for.
Residents came to meet our team, ask hard questions and tell us what matters to them. Here is what we shared, what we stand behind, and how the conversation continues.
October 7, 2026 · Smartland Energy
Read more →MOU with Hadron Energy on potential portfolio-scale deployment of Halo Micro-Modular Reactors across up to five Smartland behind-the-meter projects.
April 29, 2026 · Matt Fritz
Read more →Ohio's interconnection queue is stretching out, the BTM coalition is unusually broad, and the energy-community siting opportunity is real.
March 2026
Read more →Engaging with global leaders on energy security and infrastructure modernization.
October 30, 2025 · Victor F.
Read more →CEO Vadim Kleyner spent the week in Washington as part of a bipartisan delegation, discussing reliability under rising load, speed-to-power, and permitting.
October 2025
Read more →Conversation focused on Ohio's pro-business policy environment, gas resources, available industrial-zoned land, and growing demand from data centers and advanced manufacturing.
August 2025
Read more →Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia sit inside the PJM footprint, with proximity to data-center growth corridors and access to natural-gas infrastructure.
August 2025
Read more →Smartland submitted a redevelopment bid for the Muskingum River Plant. The Port Authority selected an alternate proposal; Smartland continues to engage on adjacent Ohio sites.
August 2025
Read more →Eastern Ohio sits at the intersection of three procurement-relevant factors: existing gas pipelines, available industrial-zoned land, and energy-community bonus eligibility.
August 7, 2025 · Victor F.
Read more →Smartland engaged with a real asset, completed real diligence, and walked when the math did not support the investment.
August 2, 2025 · Victor F.
Read more →Three things make Ohio worth a closer look for buyers evaluating large industrial or data-center loads: gas infrastructure, brownfield permitting, and aligned policy.
August 2025
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