Gas Power Architectures
Two architectures, sized to your load and your duty cycle. Modular 10 MW RICE units for fast ramp and rolling maintenance, or combined-cycle gas turbines for steady high-efficiency baseload. Both can integrate CHP where beneficial.
Gas-fired generation is the on-ramp for BTM power at the scale modern data centers, industrial campuses, and defense installations require. We design and develop two gas architectures depending on load shape, ramp behavior, and site economics - and propose the architecture that fits your operating profile, rather than forcing one technology onto every site.
01 Modular RICE
10 MW reciprocating engine units. Native N+2. Fast ramp. Rolling maintenance.
Modern enclosed RICE plants are built as a set of 10 MW reciprocating gas engines. The architecture is modular at the engine level, which changes the operating math in ways that matter to the buyer:
Native N+2 redundancy. A site that needs firm 100 MW is built with twelve to fourteen 10 MW engines. Two engines can be out of service and the contracted delivery is still met under defined operating conditions. There is no single-machine concentration risk, and no failure of one large unit drops half the plant.
Faster mean-time-to-repair. A 10 MW engine is smaller, more standardized, and more interchangeable than a frame turbine. Spares are easier to stock, vendor service response is faster, and a swap takes hours-to-days rather than weeks-to-months.
Rolling maintenance. Each engine is serviced individually while the rest of the block continues to deliver firm power. Major overhauls become operating events, not site outages.
Fast start and ramp. RICE engines start, sync, and ramp faster than large frame turbines, which is operationally material for AI/HPC compute, batch industrial duty cycles, and any load where demand is volatile.
Quieter operation. Modern enclosed RICE plants run materially quieter than equivalent open-frame turbine plants - a real factor in community acceptance, permitting timelines, and siting flexibility.
Fuel flexibility. Natural gas as primary fuel, with optional dual-fuel configurations for sites that require fuel-supply contingency.
02 Combined-Cycle Gas Turbine
Steady high-efficiency baseload. Up to 60% thermal efficiency. Train-level redundancy.
For very large, steady-state loads, combined-cycle gas turbine plants deliver the highest thermal efficiency available from a gas-fired plant. A frame turbine produces electricity directly; a heat recovery steam generator captures the exhaust heat and produces steam; that steam runs a steam turbine for additional electricity. The bottoming cycle is what brings the plant to roughly 60% thermal efficiency.
Designed for steady utilization. CCGT economics work when the load is steady and high. For volatile or low-utilization profiles, RICE is the better fit.
Train-level redundancy. Multiple GT/HRSG/ST trains, balance-of-plant redundancy, and operating protocols defined to support firm delivery.
OEM partnerships. We work with leading frame-turbine manufacturers (GE, Siemens, Mitsubishi) and select equipment based on load shape, fuel supply, and lifecycle economics rather than vendor preference.
Strategic siting. CCGT plants are typically sited in rural areas near natural gas resources, supporting community economic development while delivering high-efficiency power to the technology and industrial sectors that need it.
Larger footprint. A CCGT plant requires more land, more cooling, and more permitting scope than the equivalent RICE unit. Where the site can accommodate it and the load justifies it, the efficiency premium pays back over the life of the offtake.
CHP Available Where Beneficial
Both architectures are engineered so combined heat and power can be added without retrofit risk. RICE-based CHP captures jacket water, lube oil, and exhaust heat for thermal offtakers. CCGT-based CHP extracts steam from the bottoming cycle for industrial process heat or district heating. The integration provisions, footprint allocation, and interconnection points are designed in from day one - when your thermal-utilization economics support installing the equipment, the project does not need to be re-engineered.
CHP is most economically meaningful where thermal demand is stable: industrial process heat, district heating, sterilization, drying, hangar and billeting heat at defense installations, and large campus thermal loads.
Strategic Development
We site projects with attention to four interconnected factors:
- Gas supply - proximity to existing pipelines and willingness of the local gas utility to support the offtake
- Load proximity- distance to the offtaker's site, which affects interconnection and transmission cost
- Permitting environment - air, water, noise, and community acceptance trajectory
- Economic development fit - alignment with local economic development priorities, which materially affects permitting timelines and political durability
Our active development map currently includes projects in Ohio (Muskingum River and additional sites), Minnesota (Brainerd Hydroelectric evaluation for clean repurposing), Virginia (Tazewell County), and other locations under evaluation. See current initiatives →
Environmental and Community Posture
Modern gas plants are quieter, lower-emission, and more efficient than the public image often suggests, and we plan permitting and community engagement on that basis rather than as a defensive afterthought. Air permitting, water use, and noise impact are addressed early in development. Modern enclosed RICE plants in particular reduce community-acceptance friction relative to legacy power infrastructure. We do not claim to exceed every applicable environmental standard at every site - we plan to meet the applicable standards reliably and to engage local stakeholders with project-specific information rather than generic talking points.