Projects
Our principals have a long history of successful energy projects. Our operations team has years of experience making energy projects work.
BIOMASS AND ENERGY-FROM-WASTE (EFW)
East Energy focuses on appropriately-sized, industrial-scale projects.
BIOMASS
Biomass energy is the use of organic materials as fuel, typically in a tightly controlled combustion process. The East Energy approach is to use advanced boiler technology; proven commercial technology with controlled emissions equipment, all operating under a minor source air permit. The minor source air permit is obtainable in months instead of years, but it operates under the careful watch of the environmental authorities. It means that we make energy with more finesse than brute force—and that we scale it to the size required by the industrial users around us.
STEEL IN THE GROUND
East Energy opened its first 15 MW (power and thermal equivalent), 200 tons per day biomass power plant in 2019 in Farmville, NC. The Wilson and LaGrange plants, each at 25 MW, 280 tpd, opened in Q4 of 2024. Learning how to make energy from difficult ag waste has been a challenge nationally, and these plants each represent improvements and lessons-learned overcoming these challenges. Each site employs 18-20 technicians in well-paid "green collar" jobs with benefits and supports co-located industry with low cost thermal energy and small EMCs with inexpensive, baseline power. Project #4 is currently in development in roughly the same 60-mile radious footprint.
Click on the DOE Profile for the Farmville project →
(listed as Carolina Poultry Power, the local name of this East pipeline of projects).
WORK WITH US
If you have a waste stream with high energy content and/or a tipping fee or have a wastewater treatment or industrial facility that has a need for thermal energy, preferably in the North Carolina region, it may be worth a discussion. Our development team is well-versed in a wide range of technology applications and always open to discuss good ideas. Our motto is that a fast no is better than a long maybe but it’s useful to kick around an idea to see if it might have traction! Shoot us an email to discuss: info@eastenergyrenewables.com.
East Energy Data (EED)
Subsidiary East Energy Data (EED) is leveraging our distributed power generation experience by developing a network of Data Centers (DCs) in Eastern North Carolina. We are well down the path—with firm power imminent at multiple sites—of launching "community-sized" DCs with capacities up to 50 MW, ramped from a speed-to-power first phase of 10 MW .
These facilities are designed to fit comfortably into small communities and onto small sites and utilities, to deliver secure, stable power and maximize sustainability by decarbonization wherever possible, minimizing water use and using reclaimed water, maximizing use of off-peak resources to unburden grid constraints and work to include our back-up generation as part of emergency grid planning. We are building the pathway to meet the compute challenges our new era requires without the burdens on communities and power and natural resources. Our CEO Rich Deming laid out the vision here.
Our central goal is to unlock several billion dollars of DC investment for the rural North Carolina communities that have been the backbone of our success, in a way that benefits them with excellent, lasting economic benefits and no undue resource or lifestyle burdens.