Current Initiatives
Active U.S. development pipeline.
Smartland is actively developing dedicated behind-the-meter power infrastructure across the United States, focused on geographies where utility constraints, demand growth, and policy environment favor decentralized generation built at the load. Buyers evaluating a Smartland offtake should expect us to discuss the projects below candidly: what stage they're at, what the schedule drivers are, and where there is or isn't capacity available.
Active Efforts
- Technical and financial evaluation of legacy coal and hydroelectric plants for behind-the-meter repurposing
- Strategic site targeting for flexible, dispatchable generation assets to serve data center and industrial load
- Competitive redevelopment bids across active U.S. development geographies
- Stakeholder and regulatory engagement to align project siting with regional economic development priorities
- Partner-driven hybrid system modeling integrating gas, layered solar and storage, and forward-looking firm-power technologies (advanced nuclear, hydrogen)
The Path to Q3 2028
Dedicated power is built in stages. Here is the development lifecycle and where the pipeline sits today, so a buyer evaluating an offtake, and the lender's technical advisor reviewing it, know exactly what has to happen, and when, between now and power online.
1
Development & Site Evaluation (active now)
Site identification, technical and financial evaluation, competitive redevelopment bids, and stakeholder/regulatory engagement across Ohio, Virginia, Minnesota, and adjacent regions.
2
Site Control & Permitting
Securing site rights and advancing the permitting and interconnect scope for a selected site, with land acquisition led in-house.
3
Notice to Proceed (NTP)
Capacity reserved and contracted; the ~24-month build clock starts at NTP.
4
Construction & Commissioning
Modular 10 MW RICE generation installed and commissioned in blocks; MV distribution and controls built out and validated.
5
Initial Capacity Online (targeted Q3 2028)
First customer load energized under a contract-backed SLA with defined outage classifications and remedies. Additional modular 10 MW blocks are added as contracted load grows.
Featured Initiatives
Active Geographies
We are currently most active in:
- Ohio: Muskingum River redevelopment bid; multiple additional site evaluations across central and eastern Ohio; engagement with state-level energy stakeholders (Ohio Energy Symposium); meetings with Ohio policy leaders on the future of BTM generation
- Minnesota: Brainerd Hydroelectric clean-repurposing evaluation
- Virginia: site evaluation activity in Tazewell County
- West Virginia and adjacent Appalachian regions: energy community siting evaluation
- Additional geographies under evaluation; details available under NDA