In this US news roundup, Eos and Turbine-X, CPower and Vertiv, and Elevate Renewables highlight the ‘bring your own capacity’ (‘BYOC’) model in data centre-focused announcements.
Eos partners with Turbine-X to power data centres with natural gas and BESS
Zinc hybrid cathode battery maker Eos Energy Enterprises and behind-the-meter (BTM) natural gas infrastructure developer Turbine-X have announced a joint development agreement (JDA) to deploy private power infrastructure for AI data centres.
Under the JDA, Turbine-X is targeting up to 2GWh of Eos’s battery energy storage systems (BESS) across a defined project pipeline over the next 36 months, with initial deployments targeted for 2027. Eos claims its non-lithium battery technology is suitable for long-duration energy storage (LDES) applications of up to 16-hour duration, based on the company’s proprietary zinc hybrid cathode technology, Znyth.
Turbine-X’s “simple-cycle turbine generation” will be paired with the Eos BESS, “creating a fully engineerable power solution designed specifically for constrained, high-load environments such as AI campuses.”
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According to Turbine-X, the current pipeline includes multiple large-scale projects in active development, each designed to support multi-hundred-MW deployments per site, with additional opportunities under evaluation.
Projects will advance under jointly defined milestones, performance criteria, and customer requirements, determined by a development advisory committee established under the JDA.
The companies highlight the recent focus on ‘bring your own power’ (BYOP) or ‘bring your own capacity’ (BYOC) business models from large-load customers like data centres. The US government has encouraged these models to address consumer concerns about grid strain from increased data centre electricity demand.
Justin Vagnozzi, Eos SVP of technical sales & commercial operations said of the JDA, “This partnership establishes a new model for private power infrastructure, purpose-built for AI. Turbine-X brings proven execution capability in gas-fired generation, and our Indensity architecture delivers more energy in less space with the response speed these environments require. We are actively developing projects and advancing a shared commercial pipeline.”
At the end of February, Eos released its Q4 and full-year 2025 financial results. The company continues to operate at a loss, but its leadership has been clear that it expects profitability to take time.
For 2026, Joe Mastrangelo, Eos’ CEO said the company will be focused “on disciplined scale and margin improvement — driving manufacturing efficiency, improving unit economics quarter-over-quarter, and converting our backlog into high-quality revenue. With a strengthened balance sheet and improving cost profile, we believe we are positioned to transition from accelerated growth to sustainable value creation.”
Eos projects revenue for the entire year of 2026 to range from US$300 million to US$400 million.
CPower and Vertiv help data centres improve grid capacity
Commercial and industrial (C&I) energy management specialist CPower and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) provider Vertiv are collaborating to help data centres improve grid capacity by turning BESS into grid resources.
According to Vertiv, it has integrated its Vertiv EnergyCore Grid BESS with CPower’s virtual power plant (VPP) platform “to help data centres use behind-the-meter (BTM) storage and other energy assets for demand response and other grid services, while improving facility resilience, supporting interconnection strategies, and increasing the economic value of installed infrastructure.”
The EnergyCore Grid BESS is specifically built for “data centres and critical infrastructure”. Project sizes start at 4MW with discharge durations from one to eight hours. The BESS utilises lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells and is integrated with Vertiv’s energy management system (EMS).
Vertiv and CPower also cite the BYOC strategy, highlighting the massive power usage data centres are projected to create globally over the next decade.
Vertiv worked with CPower to monetise a 1MW microgrid, combining BESS, solar, hydrogen fuel cell and UPS systems, at Vertiv’s customer experience centre in Ohio.
The companies claim that the project enabled Vertiv to generate demand response revenue, secure on-bill savings and support PJM, the largest grid operator in North America. The programme also helped Vertiv offset capital expenses by optimising the performance of the microgrid’s BESS across capacity, economic and ancillary services programmes.
In 2018, Vertiv’s Emiliano Cevenini wrote in a guest blog for Energy-Storage.news that “Most, if not all, data centres run an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) as a back-up system in case of any energy outage. It ensures data centres are operational during any grid disruption – whether caused by a hurricane, fire, flood or civil disturbance. So, while its primary purpose is to protect against power failure, this additional power source can also be ‘unlocked’.
“When data centres are running at less than 100% capacity, or when reserve power supplies are not used, they can be repurposed back to the grid. Data centre performance and reliability always come first, but energy can be pushed back to the grid when it is safe and cost-effective to do so,” Cevenini wrote.
Elevate Renewables closes US$50 million for solar-plus-storage project contracted to data centre
Developer and IPP Elevate Renewables has successfully closed a US$50 million energy transition supplier finance facility for a solar-plus-storage project contracted to a data centre.
The facility was arranged by Dutch multinational bank Rabobank, and Elevate claims it enhances the company’s “competitiveness, supply chain resilience and improves overall project execution.”
Josh Rogol, CEO of Elevate, said of the facility, “Energy infrastructure is now directly tied to economic growth. Facilities like this don’t just finance projects, they enable speed and competitiveness so we can execute for our customers and investors.”
In January, Elevate acquired the 150MW/600MWh Prospect Power Storage project, which the company claims as the largest standalone BESS in PJM.
Located in Rockingham County, near Virginia’s “Data Centre Alley,” Prospect Power is currently under construction and scheduled to begin operations in mid-2026.
In 2025, renewables and energy storage developer Swift Current Energy, secured US$242 million in financing for Prospect Power. This marked Swift Current Energy’s first large-scale battery project, which it acquired in 2023 from Clean Planet Energy, a joint venture between Open Road Renewable Energy and Eolian.
Prospect Power is committed to a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with utility Dominion Energy Virginia.
In March, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) selected Elevate Renewables’ 150MW/600MWh Garden State Reliability BESS project for development in Ridgefield, New Jersey, as part of the Garden State Energy Storage Programme (GSESP).
NJBPU approved the first phase of the GSESP in June 2025. The programme aims to deploy 2,000MW of BESS by 2030, following a mandate established by the Clean Energy Act of 2018.
Earlier this month, Elevate Renewables’ financial backer, infrastructure investor ArcLight Capital Partners, closed its ArcLight Infrastructure Partners Fund VIII, with US$3.9 billion raised over 24 months of fundraising.
