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Dispatchable power for a growing economy

Building the next generation of energy infrastructure.

Demand for firm power is outrunning the grid. SAS builds 10–50 MW energy campuses beside the load: dispatchable, around-the-clock power from high-hazard forest and agricultural residue, low carbon to carbon negative.

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Illustrative rendering of two engineers looking up at a gasification tower with steel platforms against a blue sky
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  • 10–50MW

    Target capacity per campus

  • 24/7

    Dispatchable, baseload generation

  • 95%

    Design capacity factor, representative campus

  • 5

    Potential value streams per campus

Thesis

We stand at the intersection.

AI data centers are hitting grid bottlenecks. California has to clear wildfire fuel from its forests. Green waste still ends up in landfills. SAS answers all three at once.

SAS evolved from repowering distressed biomass plants for wildfire mitigation into repeatable energy campuses: behind-the-meter power for AI and data-center load, heat and cooling, and, where a campus adds conversion, biochar and carbon credits.

A fleet, not a single plant: one development, financing and operating model, with every campus underwritten on its own.

Three pressures, one platform
  • 24/7 power
  • Heat and cooling
  • Biochar and creditsWhere a campus adds conversion
Electrical substation steelwork against a clear sky

AI is hitting the grid.

Pressure 01: grid bottlenecks

AI data centers are hitting grid bottlenecks. Demand for firm power is outrunning the grid.

How SAS answers it
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Low prescribed burn moving through the forest floor beneath tall pines, with a fire crew in the distance

Our forests are overloaded with fuel.

Pressure 02: wildfire fuel load

California has to thin overgrown forests and remove the dead wood and brush that feeds wildfire. That high-hazard material is a feedstock, if there is a plant nearby to take it.

Our feedstock
Courtesy USDA Forest Service
Orchard tree rows seen from directly above

Green waste still ends up in landfills.

Pressure 03: green waste

California still sends green waste to landfills, where it breaks down into methane. Diverted to a campus, it becomes fuel for firm power instead.

Impact
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One platform answers all three.

SAS energy campuses

24/7 power, heat and cooling, and, where a campus adds conversion, biochar and carbon credits. A fleet, not a single plant.

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Downtown Los Angeles at sunset, with snow on Mount Baldy behind
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Why now

California defined the trend. It will define what comes next.

Renewables made up nearly all new US generating capacity over the last two years, and California led that trend. The next chapter is fully renewable, dispatchable energy that derisks catastrophic wildfire and powers a robust economy.

  • Fossil baseload is retiring
  • Carbon markets now pay for removal
  • Policy and capital back the model

  • Resource-led

    Every campus starts with what is local: feedstock, land, grid access and load.

  • Technology-agnostic

    Proven equipment is selected project by project, never locked in at the platform level.

  • Dispatchable

    Built to run around the clock and follow the load, not the weather.

Who we serve

  • Digital infrastructure

    AI and data centers

    Dependable near-load capacity and clear power attributes for compute.

  • Industry

    Industrial users

    Dispatchable electricity and heat for energy-intensive operations.

  • Public and community

    Utilities and host communities

    Local capacity, resource stewardship and lasting economic participation.

Technology

An integrated energy campus.

Every SAS campus is engineered as one system: local resource in, firm power out, with controls and storage between.

How a typical campus operates
  • Energy flow
  • Planned upgrade, where the site supports it
Cutaway drawing of an energy campus: fuel yard and conveyor, generation hall with boiler and turbine, power controls, battery container, transformer and transmission tower, and the customer building, linked by energy lines. A dashed tier below shows the planned pyrolysis unit, biochar storage and soil carbon. Illustrative rendering

  1. 01

    Biomass resources

    Fuel yard with a wood chip pile beside conifers and a conveyor rising to the generation hallIllustrative rendering

    Forest and farm residue; truck dumps, sorting, chipping, fuel storage

  2. 02

    Generation

    Generation hall with boiler, turbine and generator, and the stack

    Boiler, steam or gas turbines, heat recovery; 10–50 MW

  3. 03

    Power controls

    Switchgear room with control panels and a rooftop cooling unit

    Electrical equipment and plant control system

  4. 04

    Battery storage

    Battery container with its doors open and an inverter

    Battery modules and inverters for firming and ramping

  5. 05

    Grid or customer

    Step-up transformer, transmission tower and the customer building

    Behind-the-meter power and heat, plus grid export

Planned upgrades Planned tier in a dashed outline: pyrolysis unit, biochar bags and biochar worked into soilPyrolysis and gasificationBiocharCarbon removal Added campus by campus, where the feedstock, site and offtake support them

Three configurations

  • Chipped forest residue used as biomass fuel Representative image

    Biomass-led

    Dispatchable biomass and useful outputs.

    Firm power and heat from local residues, with syngas and biochar added where a conversion upgrade fits.

  • Generator stator windings during assembly Representative image

    Hybrid

    Technologies combined around the load.

    Biomass paired with microturbines, grid supply or other generation when the customer needs the mix.

  • Utility-scale battery storage yard Representative image

    Flexibility

    Store, shift and firm.

    Batteries and long-duration storage support ramping, dispatch and resilience.

One campus, five assets: energy, agricultural waste, carbon removal, thermal infrastructure and community resilience.

Carbon

Low carbon to carbon negative. Measured project by project.

Each campus is configured to its site. Many run proven biomass generation; where the feedstock and offtake support it, pyrolysis or gasification converts the fuel instead, producing power from syngas and holding much of the carbon back as biochar.

Each project’s profile depends on its feedstock and conversion, so SAS documents it with lifecycle accounting and independent verification.

Firm power and low carbon.
Solar and batteryWindNatural gasBiomass pyrolysis
Dispatchable 24/7NoNoYesYes
Energy density and footprintLowLowHighHigh
Carbon footprintNeutralNeutralPositiveLow to negative
Resource useLinearLinearLinearCircular, turns waste into value

Pyrolysis is the only option here that pairs around-the-clock dispatch with a low-carbon to carbon-negative profile. SAS adds it campus by campus, where the feedstock, site and offtake support it.

How a pyrolysis campus holds carbon back as biochar

How a pyrolysis campus holds carbon back as biochar Forest residue goes into the conversion building and splits in two: syngas goes on to generate power, and biochar goes into the ground, where it stays stored in the soil. Forest residueConversionSyngas to powerBiochar stored in soil

  • Feedstock

    Traceable source, counterfactual baseline, transport and chain of custody.

  • Conversion

    Conversion performance, auxiliary loads and full process emissions.

  • Biochar

    Quality, stability, end use and carbon storage evidence.

  • Lifecycle

    Lifecycle assessment, monitoring and independent verification.

  1. Feedstock

    Traceable source, counterfactual baseline, transport and chain of custody.

  2. Conversion

    Conversion performance, auxiliary loads and full process emissions.

  3. Biochar

    Quality, stability, end use and carbon storage evidence.

  4. Lifecycle

    Lifecycle assessment, monitoring and independent verification.

Impact

A wildfire mitigation platform. A landfill-diversion measure.

SAS runs on material California is working to clear from its forests and keep out of its landfills, and every campus puts that material to work for the communities around it.

  • California Department of Insurance seal

    Designated by the California Department of Insurance

    A wildfire mitigation platform: projects turn high-hazard forest material into energy before it becomes wildfire fuel.

  • Great Seal of the State of California

    Advancing California’s SB 1383 organic-waste goals

    The law calls for a 75% cut in organic waste sent to landfill from 2014 levels. Green and agricultural waste that would otherwise be landfilled becomes SAS feedstock instead.

Firefighter on a prescribed burn, California. USDA Forest Service.

Built with the communities that host it.

SAS works with host communities, local governments and forest stewards from site selection through operations, so investment, jobs and contracts stay where the plants are.

  • A forestry crew in hard hats and safety vests reviewing a plan on a tablet in a pine forestRepresentative image

    Long-term local jobs

    Plant operations, forestry, trucking and maintenance. A representative campus supports about 500 jobs, built with local union labor and local vendors.

  • A farm family transplanting a field from a tractor while a USDA conservationist talks with themCourtesy USDA NRCS

    Rural economic development

    Partnerships with rural communities and tribal nations, with carbon-credit income reinvested locally.

  • An engineer checking a power-generation engine inside a generator buildingRepresentative image

    More energy capacity

    Each campus adds 10–50 MW of dispatchable, around-the-clock generation where the grid needs it most.

  • A California peach farmer showing his irrigation system to a USDA soil conservationistCourtesy USDA NRCS

    Stronger farms, recovering soil

    Where a campus produces biochar, it returns to working land and can improve soil structure and water retention.

Why SAS

A bankable blueprint, repeated site by site.

Each project is underwritten on its own, and capital is released stage by stage, only against evidence.

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  1. Speed to power

    Campuses sit beside the load, clear of most of the grid queues that delay new supply.

  2. Existing plants, existing permits

    We start from dormant biomass plants that already hold interconnections, permits and transmission access.

  3. Barriers to entry

    Permits, site control and local feedstock take years to assemble.

  4. Contracted, not merchant

    Offtake for power, biochar and credits is lined up before construction capital is released.

How every project advances

  1. 01Site
  2. 02Resource
  3. 03Engineering
  4. 04Offtake
  5. 05Capital

Each stage is a gate: capital moves on only when it clears. Many projects advance at once, each at its own stage.

Five potential value streams

  • Electricity
  • Biochar
  • Carbon credits
  • Syngas heat
  • Incentives and grants

Evaluated project by project, not assumed.

Company

Our mission is to develop, build and operate a precedent-setting, globally competitive fleet of advanced low-carbon, net-zero and carbon-negative power generation facilities that deliver baseload power. We also advance wildfire mitigation and divert green waste from landfills.

How the platform evolved

  1. Origin

    Biomass redevelopment and wildfire mitigation

  2. Expansion

    A multi-revenue energy campus

  3. Now

    A scalable baseload platform for the AI era

What we hold to

  • Strengthen energy security
  • Live aligned with the earth
  • Create long-term local jobs
  • Grow rural economies
  • Give back to the community
  • Protect worker and community safety

SAS is a Latino-owned company with a diverse management and technical team.

Leadership

Leadership and project team.

Institutional capital formation, strategic partnerships, power-sector operating experience and biomass project execution, in one integrated development team.

  • Tom Soto

    Chief Executive Officer

    Capital and strategy

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    As a TCW Alternatives managing director, helped scale the platform from $300M to $10.3B. Impact investing pioneer, former Clinton Administration appointee and co-founder emeritus of the LA Cleantech Incubator.

  • Richard Wegman

    Chief Financial Officer

    Finance

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    More than 50 years of financial and operating leadership across mission-driven platforms, including CFO roles at LACI, with deep governance and capital campaign experience.

  • Ricardo Tejada

    Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Director

    Infrastructure finance

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    More than 20 years in technology and infrastructure finance and capital markets. Has structured or arranged more than $3B across 275+ projects globally.

  • Angelina M. Galiteva

    Managing Director, Strategy and Partnerships

    Development and policy

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    Clean energy executive and policy leader. CEO of California ARCHES, former CAISO Board Chair and LADWP strategic planning executive.

  • Adam Muston

    Project Manager

    Operations

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    Twenty years across operations, project management, finance and technical maintenance. Former biomass plant O&M manager who led major fuel conversion and boiler rebuild work.

  • Farley Flores

    Senior Associate

    Finance

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    Private equity professional supporting capital raising, investor relationships and energy-sector diligence. Economics training from Tufts University.

  • Bart Wood

    Interim CTO, Bayview Engineers

    Engineering

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    One of California’s most experienced biomass power-plant builders, operators and innovators.

Contact

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