Digital Energy / Pillar 05
Supporting Thermal Technologies
Geothermal, waste-to-energy, gas, and solar thermal stacked with SMRs for resilient national energy systems. Built for ports, islands, industrial parks, and grid stability.
Dispatch control
AI-orchestrated
Site strategy
Brownfield-first
Coverage
Urban to remote
Geothermal + SMR pairing
Deep geothermal with SMR backup and shared balance-of-plant for dispatchable clean heat and power.
Waste-to-energy + CCS
Modern W2E with emissions control and optional carbon capture, tied into islanded microgrids.
Hydrogen-ready gas
High-efficiency gas peakers as interim capacity with clear retrofit path to SMR or blended H2 fuels.
Solar thermal + storage
Thermal storage and solar heat integration to shave peaks and support district energy.
Biomass/biogas CHP
Feedstock-flex CHP units for industrial parks and agro hubs with grid-support services.
Scenarios
See how the thermal stack deploys
Image-led briefs to visualize the mix across brownfields, islands, and industrial corridors.
Brownfield conversions
Islanded microgrids
Industrial parks
Programs
Delivery tracks
Blueprints for brownfield, islanded, industrial, and district thermal deployments.
Brownfield conversions
Repower retired coal/gas sites with SMR + geothermal + storage while reusing permits and interconnects.
Islanded and remote
Microgrids with W2E, solar thermal, and SMR backup for islands, mines, and humanitarian hubs.
Ports and industrial parks
Thermal stacks delivering shore power, process steam, and hydrogen-ready heat for logistics and industry.
District energy
Geothermal, solar thermal, and SMR-fed hot/chilled water loops for cities and campuses.
Benefits
Complete thermal ecosystems
A layered approach that complements nuclear and renewables.
Layered resilience
Stack diverse thermal inputs to ride through weather, price shocks, cyber events, and outages.
Optimized dispatch
AI orchestration picks the cleanest, lowest-cost source while maintaining grid stability.
Permitting velocity
Brownfield-first siting that reuses corridors, cooling, and workforce to compress approvals.
National coverage
Right-size thermal stacks for islands, ports, industrial zones, and remote communities.
Detailed scope
Designing the right thermal mix
Configuring geothermal, W2E, gas, and solar thermal with SMRs to balance grids, industry, and remote hubs.
Resource strategy
- Geothermal resource mapping paired with SMR baseload and storage.
- W2E siting to reduce landfill while delivering firm heat and power.
- Gas bridging strategies with a roadmap to hydrogen blend and nuclear repower.
Grid & operations
- Solar thermal + storage for peak shaving and frequency/voltage support.
- AI dispatch to select lowest-cost, lowest-carbon source while honoring grid codes.
- Microgrid configurations for islands, ports, industrial parks, and edge data centers.
People & uptime
- O&M playbooks, drills, and training aligned to local workforces and regulators.
- Supply chain localization for spare parts, consumables, and services.
- Sovereign-compliant safety, environmental frameworks, and community engagement.
Assurance
Safety, uptime, and commercial certainty
Governance, resilience, and finance frameworks that keep diversified thermal stacks bankable and compliant.
Safety + environment
- Best-available emissions controls, CCUS options, and groundwater protection for W2E and biomass.
- Thermal interface safety cases with trip logic, isolation, and purge/inerting procedures.
- Environmental baselines, monitoring, and community communication baked into delivery.
Operations + uptime
- AI dispatch across thermal assets, storage, and grid interconnect with cyber-hardened OT.
- Spare parts depots, OEM frameworks, and workforce training for localized maintenance.
- Black-start, islanding, and microgrid modes to protect critical loads and data centers.
Commercial + finance
- PPAs, capacity and ancillary services monetization, and heat/cold offtake models.
- Phased buildouts and transition plans that avoid stranded assets and revenue cliffs.
- Tariff, wheeling, and REC/attribute strategies aligned to sovereign policy.
Proof
Reference playbooks
Scenario-tested configurations adaptable to sovereign regulators, utilities, ports, and industrial anchors.
Coal-to-clean repower: SMR + geothermal + battery at a retired plant, reusing cooling and interconnect to cut approvals by 18 months.
Island microgrid: W2E, solar thermal, and SMR backup providing 24/7 power with black-start and fuel diversification.
Port/industrial zone: thermal park delivering shore power, hydrogen-ready steam, and frequency support for cranes and cold chain.
District energy: solar thermal + SMR-fed hot/chilled loops serving a city core with heat reuse from data centers.