Private Grid Power · NYSE: AESI

The grid takes years.
Atlas takes months.

Behind-the-meter private grids for AI infrastructure, manufacturing, and industry — designed, financed, built, owned, and operated by the team that wired the Permian.

Power

Private grids from 50 to 500 MW. Bridge generation in weeks, permanent plants in months, operated under long-term agreements.

Logistics

The Dune Express, autonomous trucking, and a proprietary dispatch platform moving material at basin scale.

Sand

The largest proppant producer in North America — the cash engine and operating DNA behind the platform.

The Bottleneck

Compute isn't waiting on chips. It's waiting on electrons.

AI campuses, server manufacturers, and reshored industry are queuing years for utility interconnection — while finished facilities sit dark. Every month without power is unrealized revenue. Atlas closes that gap with dedicated on-site generation, energized on an industrial timeline instead of a utility one.

Typical utility interconnectionMulti-year queue
36–60+ months
Atlas private gridContract to energization
9–14 months
The Model

Bridge. Permanent. Partnership.

STEP 01

Bridge Power

Mobile generation arrives onsite in weeks. Construction, commissioning, and early operations start immediately — no waiting on the queue.

STEP 02

Permanent Plant

A dedicated behind-the-meter facility — 50 to 500 MW of high-efficiency natural gas generation — engineered, financed, and built by Atlas.

STEP 03

Long-Term Operation

Atlas owns and operates the system under multi-year power purchase agreements. Your capital stays in your business.

Your business isn't power. Ours is.

The Buildout

From first contract to two gigawatts.

Track Record

We've built at this scale before.

Private grids aren't a pivot away from the Permian — they're built on it. The same record of engineering, permitting, financing, and operating heavy infrastructure in hard places now powers the grid-constrained economy.

2017

Founded by Permian operators

Built by the Brigham organization on a simple thesis: in-basin execution beats imported everything.

MAR 2023

NYSE listing — AESI

Public debut as the Permian's in-basin proppant and logistics leader.

MAR 2024

Hi-Crush acquisition

Becomes the largest proppant producer in North America, spanning 14 facilities.

DEC 2024

Dune Express energized · first driverless deliveries

A 42-mile fully electric overland conveyor — the longest of its kind — alongside the first commercial driverless RoboTruck deliveries in the basin.

FEB 2025

Moser Energy Systems acquired

A $220M platform acquisition: decades of distributed, remote-site natural gas generation — the wedge into private power.

NOV 2025

240 MW of generation equipment ordered

Capital reallocated to the power buildout as demand signals accelerate.

MAR 2026

Caterpillar framework agreement — ~1.4 GW

Roughly $840M of reserved generation capacity through 2030. Supply certainty in a market where engines are the bottleneck.

APR 2026

First private-grid PPA — 120 MW

A 5-year agreement (two 5-year extension options) with an investment-grade technology infrastructure customer. Bridge power already onsite; ~$50–55M of annualized adjusted free cash flow expected at full operation.

H1 2027

Full energization of first private grid

Permanent plant commissioned and delivering under contract.

2030

~2.0 GW owned & operated

The stated ambition: a private-power platform at utility scale, on Atlas's balance sheet.

"Grid limitations are pushing industrial customers to seek alternative power solutions through private grid systems."
John Turner · President & CEO · March 2026 announcement
The Engine

Sand & logistics fund the future — and prove the method.

Remote-site execution. Uptime culture. Fuel logistics, telemetry, and automation at basin scale. The operating DNA that made Atlas the Permian's infrastructure company is the same DNA now energizing private grids.

#1
Largest proppant producer in North America
42 mi
Dune Express — fully electric overland conveyor
14
Production facilities across the network
24/7
Autonomous trucking & digital dispatch operations
Talent

Built in Austin. Proven in the Permian.

Power engineers, field operators, and an in-house AI team building the tools that run it all. Atlas is hiring the people who'll wire the AI era.

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