Wharton, NJ – Anax Power (www.anaxpower.com), whose proprietary technology generates clean power from natural gas without combustion, has been selected by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to receive a grant of up to $5,771,226 through the Reducing Industrial Sector Emissions in Pennsylvania (RISE PA) Grant Program. The award will fund the installation of four Anax Turboexpander Systems (“ATEs”) paired with an on-site data center in Pennsylvania.
The grant was announced as part of a more than $267 million statewide investment by the Shapiro Administration in 31 manufacturing and industrial decarbonization projects across the Commonwealth.
Under the project, Anax will install four 500 kW ATEs that will generate up to 2 MW of zero-emissions electricity. The ATE uses the pressure and flow of natural gas moving through pipelines to drive a turbine and generate clean power, without burning natural gas or releasing greenhouse gases. Rather than exporting this power to the grid, the electricity generated by the ATEs will be consumed on-site by a co-located data center.
An Integrated Power-and-Cooling System
The four ATEs and the on-site data center are designed to operate as a single, closed-loop system in which each side solves the other’s biggest challenge. The ATEs supply the data center with continuous, behind-the-meter, emissions-free baseload power. In turn, the data center provides a constant, co-located consumer for the ATEs’ electricity. The two systems are also thermally integrated: cooling produced by the turboexpanders (via the Joule-Thomson Effect) is used to manage the data center’s server heat load with zero water consumption — avoiding the evaporative cooling that conventional data centers rely on — while excess heat recovered from the computing equipment is returned to the natural gas stream to maintain gas temperature and protect downstream equipment. The result is a self-contained system that delivers both the clean power and the water free cooling a data center requires.
“By pairing our turboexpanders directly with on-site computing, we can unlock distributed data centers powered by clean, reliable baseload energy with zero water waste — turning wasted pipeline pressure into the foundation for sustainable digital infrastructure,” said Michael Longo, CEO of Anax Power.
The project advances Pennsylvania’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from its industrial sector — the highest-emitting sector in the Commonwealth — while supporting good-paying jobs in construction and manufacturing. The RISE PA program is a $396 million industrial decarbonization initiative funded through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Pollution Reduction Grants under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, representing one of the largest federal grants in Pennsylvania’s history.
“With these new RISE PA grants, businesses will be able to operate more efficiently, create more clean energy jobs, and strengthen our economy,” said Governor Josh Shapiro.
The project is the latest in Anax’s growing portfolio of turboexpander deployments, advancing its model of distributed, clean-powered data centers across North America.
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