100 MW by the end of 2026. 400 MW by the end of 2027.
Generation is turnkey: supplied, installed, operated and maintained by Kodiak Power Solutions, fueled from Pronghorn production. Capacity lands in blocks as load arrives.
Phased against load
Pronghorn holds the fuel, the water and the surface. Kodiak holds the equipment and the maintenance obligation. Nobody at this table is underwriting a first attempt at the power business.
End of 2026
100 MW, Caterpillar 3520 units
Reciprocating engine blocks fueled from current field production. No transmission dependency and no interconnection agreement. Mobile units can run while the air permit is in process, which takes permitting off the critical path to first power.
End of 2027
A further 300 MW, for 400 MW total
Current production covers it. 400 MW of continuous generation consumes about 91 MMcf/d against 100 MMcf/d produced today. Field development is already scoped, and return-to-production, recompletion and new-drill inventory across the leasehold carry production to the year-end target of 120 MMcf/d with room above this phase.
Gigawatt scale
2 Tcf of reserves supports 1 GW of continuous generation for more than 25 years. Getting there draws on the wider resource base across the position and the development inventory behind it.
Operations. Kodiak Power Services runs the fleet under the same turnkey structure and already operates gas generation for hyperscale data center customers elsewhere. Pronghorn supplies fuel, water, land and field support.
Every megawatt of continuous generation burns a known quantity of gas. The table uses Pronghorn production and a reciprocating engine heat rate.
| Basis | Value |
|---|---|
| Gas production today | 100 MMcf/d |
| Year-end production target | 120 MMcf/d |
| Reciprocating engine heat rate | 9,500 Btu/kWh |
| Gas per 100 MW continuous | ~23 MMcf/d |
| Gas per 400 MW continuous | ~91 MMcf/d |
| Covered by production today | Yes, at 100 MMcf/d |
| Gas per 1 GW continuous | ~228 MMcf/d |
| Reserves | 2 Tcf |
Gas is not the constraint on the build-out. The full 400 MW plan consumes about 91 MMcf/d against 100 MMcf/d produced today. Gigawatt scale requires field development, and 2 Tcf of reserves is the basis for the 25-year statement.
Modular blocks give redundancy a single large unit cannot. N+1 is inherent to the architecture, and losing one unit costs a fraction of capacity instead of a third of it.
- Islanded. Campus load carries no exposure to grid events, regional curtailment orders or transmission outages.
- Configurable redundancy. N+1 or 2N at block level, set against the counterparty’s tier requirement and uptime commitment.
- Established practice. Pronghorn runs gas-fired prime movers, fuel conditioning and a field maintenance crew across the position daily. The operating discipline a generation fleet needs is already resident.
- No fuel counterparty. On a purchased-gas plant, curtailment and force majeure risk sits with a third party. Here the fuel and the generation share an owner.
Indicated inside 24 months, and off the critical path
Behind-the-meter generation is the primary configuration and the reason the schedule holds. Grid interconnection is kept for counterparties that want export capability, a backup path or a utility relationship, and the position is unusually well placed for it.
- Available now. Several 40 MW sites can be served immediately through Pronghorn’s lower-voltage system and operator substations.
- About 300 MW known available at the Pumpkin Buttes 230 kV substation.
- Further capacity indicated at Barber Creek and Carr Draw, not yet confirmed.
- 24 months, conservatively. Powder River Energy Corporation and Bison indicate grid interconnection can be achieved inside 24 months on a conservative basis.
- Meshed, not radial. Three 230 kV substations are reachable from the Energy Park, so interconnection does not hang on a single point of delivery.
Grid capacity figures and interconnection timing are as indicated by the cooperative and the pipeline operator and are subject to written confirmation in diligence. They are not netted against the behind-the-meter schedule.
| Grid | Behind the meter | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first power | 5+ yr median | 12 to 18 months |
| Interconnection queue | Required | Not required |
| Approval risk | Rising | Outside scope |
| Fuel counterparty | Market | Pronghorn |
| Gathering and treating | Paid | Avoided |
| Curtailment exposure | Grid events | Islanded |
| Network upgrade cost | Allocated | None |
| Barber Creek | 1.5 mi |
| Carr Draw | 9.8 mi |
| Pumpkin Buttes | 28.5 mi |
| Known available, Pumpkin Buttes | ~300 MW |
| Available now, lower voltage | Several 40 MW sites |
| Indicated interconnection timing | Within 24 months |
About 1,300 MW of thermal generation already operates within 25 miles of the site: Dry Fork Station, Wyodak, Wygen 1, 2 and III, and the Neil Simpson units. Large thermal plants are established infrastructure in Campbell County.
A low carbon intensity starting point
The gas is microbial in origin, formed in coal cleats and produced without stimulation. Measured methane intensity is 0.13%, and the resource carries a low carbon intensity score against basins where gas comes up as a stimulated by-product.
Carbon capture. A carbon capture partner is evaluating Class II injection at the Energy Park itself, into coal-seam geology beneath the site. Capture and sequestration therefore sit alongside generation, with no CO2 pipeline, no transport agreement and no third-party sequestration site between them. That is what makes 45Q straightforward to structure. Capture is not a precondition for first power.
Advanced nuclear. Pronghorn is in discussions with a small modular reactor developer whose chief technology officer previously led technology at Oklo, on a structure where on-site gas provides bridge power until advanced nuclear capacity is available at the same location. The counterparty will be named on signature. Gas generation and a nuclear successor want the same things from a site: firm fuel or firm licensing, water, land, and no queue.
| Methane intensity | 0.13% |
| Gas origin | Biogenic, microbial |
| Stimulation | None |
| Sequestration | At the Energy Park, under evaluation |
| CO2 transport required | None, co-located |
| 45Q pathway | Under evaluation |
Air permitting for on-site generation runs through the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Air Quality Division. Permit class scales with installed capacity and is sequenced by phase. Mobile generation can run while the Phase 1 permit is in process.
A load profile is enough to begin.
Send target megawatts at first energization, a ramp schedule and a cooling approach. Pronghorn returns a generation block plan, a field development sequence, a water allocation and a term sheet across power, land and fuel. Capital and structure inquiries reach the same team.