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The Power Plants Nobody Wants - Until the Grid Needs Them
Rockland Capital built a private equity strategy around the awkward middle of the energy transition: keeping the grid reliable while cleaner power scales. Its edge is not a new technology, but an operator's appetite for complicated assets.
The Utility Betting $11 Billion That the Wind Off Virginia Beach Can Power a Data-Center Boom
It started as a Richmond streetcar company in 1909. Today Dominion Energy runs power plants, gas lines and a 176-turbine wind farm 27 miles out to sea - and the fastest-growing customers on its grid are warehouses full of servers.
NRG Wants to Run the Power Plant - and Your Thermostat
NRG spent years becoming a retailer you might meet on an electricity bill. Now it is joining power plants, smart homes and flexible demand into one system - a bet that the winner in the next energy cycle will understand both sides of the meter.
Vistra Corp.
Vistra sells power at both ends of the wire: a sprawling fleet makes the electricity, while familiar retail brands sell it to nearly 5 million customers. The result is a revealing bet on what the American grid needs next - nuclear endurance, gas flexibility, batteries, and a great deal more demand.
Generac
How a generator built in a Wisconsin barn became the machine millions of Americans buy the week after the power goes out - and why Generac now wants a say in the grid itself.
ignis H2 Energy Inc.
ignis H2 Energy is a Houston-based geothermal exploration and development company that applies oil-and-gas subsurface expertise, AI/ML prospecting and a technology-agnostic approach to find, prove and produce always-on geothermal power. Founded in 2021 by former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Calleri, the company is building a globally diversified, risk-balanced portfolio of geothermal projects across Turkey, the Western U.S. and Alaska, aiming for one gigawatt of documented producible reserves by 2030. It closed a $13.6M Series A round in June 2025.
Qnergy
Qnergy is an Ogden, Utah cleantech manufacturer that builds Free Piston Stirling Engine generators to mitigate methane emissions at the source. Its PowerGen systems turn waste methane and other gaseous fuels into reliable, grid-quality remote power - and can destroy methane while doing it - serving oil and gas operators, landfills, livestock farms, and other off-grid sites worldwide. Led by cleantech veteran Ory Zik, the company has deployed thousands of units, abated millions of tonnes of CO2e, and is expanding into landfill gas abatement and voluntary carbon markets.
Acceleron Fusion, Inc.
Acceleron Fusion is a Cambridge, Massachusetts deep-tech company reviving muon-catalyzed fusion, a phenomenon first observed in the 1950s, as a path to abundant clean energy. Instead of confining a 100-million-degree plasma, Acceleron fires a beam of muons - subatomic particles roughly 200 times heavier than electrons - at highly compressed deuterium-tritium fuel, triggering fusion at temperatures closer to 500-1,000 C. Founded in 2023 by NK Labs veterans Ara Knaian and Seth Newburg and backed by a $24M Series A from Lowercarbon Capital and Collaborative Fund, the company is building two core technologies: a high-efficiency muon source and a high-density fusion cell, with the goal of a fusion power plant that beats natural gas on cost.