Energy & site owners

You are burning it.
We will buy it.

If you are flaring landfill gas, flaring associated gas, or curtailing generation because there is nowhere to send it, you have a product with no customer. We finance, build, and run the load that turns it into revenue — on your land, without a pipeline, and without you spending a dollar of capital.

Interruptible by design. If you need the gas or the power back, we shut down — on your schedule, not ours.

Who this is for

Four kinds of energy we can put to work.

All of them share one problem: production and demand are in the wrong place, or at the wrong time.

Landfill & digester gas

Municipal landfills, wastewater plants, and agricultural digesters with collected gas going to a flare because RNG upgrading does not pencil at your volume. We take gas that is currently destroyed for free and pay for it instead.

Flared associated gas

Oil producers with gas they cannot economically gather. Takeaway is constrained, the pipeline is years away, or the volume never justified the tie-in. We bring generation to the pad and consume the gas at the wellhead — cutting flare volume while turning a disposal cost into a revenue line.

Curtailed & stranded renewables

Wind and solar assets that get dispatched down, hit negative pricing, or sit behind a congested interconnect. We become the buyer of last resort at the busbar — and we get out of the way instantly when the grid wants the power back.

Behind-the-meter surplus

Industrial sites with contracted capacity they are not using, self-generation running below load, or waste heat and pressure with no offtake. We soak up the margin between what you pay for and what you consume.

Your site, before and after

The flare goes out. Nothing else moves.

One site, drawn twice from the same angle. Pull the slider and the gas stops going up the stack and starts going into engines. Your collection system, your existing equipment and your flare stay exactly where they are — because in practice that is what changes and what does not.

Your site today With Proton on it
Your cell Capped, settling, and generating gas for decades
The wellfield Vertical extraction wells on a grid across the cap
The header Every well tied into one main running to the plant
Burning it Destroyed to meet the permit, earning nothing
The enclosed flare Permitted, inspected, and producing nothing
The blower Holding the field under vacuum so the gas comes up at all

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One tie-in We take the gas after your blower. The field is untouched
Treatment Moisture and contaminants out before the engine sees it
Generation Reciprocating engines sized to the gas you actually make
Transformer Stepped to the voltage the containers want
The load Machines that will buy every cubic foot you can send
Your flare stays Down to a pilot, and ready the moment we stop

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The flare stays. It remains permitted and available for upsets, and for any time you take the gas back.

  1. Your cellCapped, settling, and generating gas for decades
  2. The wellfieldVertical extraction wells on a grid across the cap
  3. The headerEvery well tied into one main running to the plant
  4. Burning itDestroyed to meet the permit, earning nothing
  5. The enclosed flarePermitted, inspected, and producing nothing
  6. The blowerHolding the field under vacuum so the gas comes up at all
  1. One tie-inWe take the gas after your blower. The field is untouched
  2. TreatmentMoisture and contaminants out before the engine sees it
  3. GenerationReciprocating engines sized to the gas you actually make
  4. TransformerStepped to the voltage the containers want
  5. The loadMachines that will buy every cubic foot you can send
  6. Your flare staysDown to a pilot, and ready the moment we stop
The split

We bring the capital and the complexity.

Most partners want the revenue without inheriting a new line of business. That is exactly how we structure it.

What Proton brings

  • All of the capital. Generation, switchgear, containers, machines, and site work are funded by us. Your capital budget is untouched.
  • Permitting and compliance. Air permits, noise, setbacks, and interconnect paperwork handled by our team, in your jurisdiction.
  • Build and commissioning. Pads, foundations, gas conditioning, and electrical, delivered as one contract with one accountable party.
  • Operations, forever. Staffed and monitored 24/7. Engine maintenance, machine repair, and curtailment response are ours, not yours.
  • Decommissioning. Bonded removal and site restoration at end of term, written into the agreement up front.

What we need from you

  • The energy. Gas volume and composition over time, or available electrical capacity with a real load profile behind it.
  • A pad and access. Roughly [X] acres of usable ground per [X] MW, with year-round vehicle access.
  • Site control. Surface rights or a lease you can assign, clean enough to survive diligence.
  • A term worth building for. Reserves, gas duration, or a contract that supports at least [XX] months of supply.
  • A decision maker. Someone who can sign a term sheet without a six-month committee cycle.
Deal structures

Three ways to get paid.

Pick the risk profile you want. Fixed and predictable, or tied to the upside — we will quote any of them on the same site.

Structure 01

Gas or power purchase

We buy your gas at a fixed [$X.XX]/MMBtu, or your power at [$0.0XX]/kWh, on a take-or-pay style contract. Simple, bankable, and it moves the bitcoin price risk off your side of the table. What it does not do is remove that risk from the deal: a fixed price is only as good as the company paying it, so ask what stands behind the obligation before you weigh it against a share.

Structure 02

Revenue share

You supply the energy, we supply everything else, and mining revenue splits [XX]/[XX] after agreed operating costs. Lower floor than a fixed contract, meaningfully higher ceiling. Reporting is open-book, with the same telemetry we run on.

Structure 03

Lease plus royalty

You lease us the pad and the interconnect for [$X,XXX] per month and take a [X]% royalty on gross production. Most common where the landowner is not the energy owner, or where a municipality needs a clean, predictable line item.

Every structure includes an interruption right: you can call the load down for operational, contractual, or emergency reasons. [NOTICE REQUIREMENTS AND ANY MINIMUM-TAKE CARVE-OUTS]

Screening criteria

What a buildable site looks like.

If your site is close on most of these, send it anyway — the edges are negotiable and we would rather look than guess.

Gas volume
From [XXX] Mcf/d, ideally [X,XXX] Mcf/d or more Below the floor we can still look at a multi-pad aggregation.
Gas quality
Heating value [XXX][X,XXX] Btu/scf; H₂S under [XXX] ppm Rich or sour gas is workable with conditioning — it changes the capex, not the answer.
Electrical capacity
From [X] MW of continuous available load Behind-the-meter or at the busbar. Interconnect studies not required for off-grid builds.
Duration
At least [XX] months of expected supply Backed by decline curves, a gas collection model, or a contracted term.
Land
Roughly [X] acres per [X] MW, graded or gradeable Plus all-weather access for container delivery on a lowboy.
Geography
[ACTIVE REGIONS — E.G. THE STATES AND PROVINCES YOU OPERATE IN] We evaluate outside these regions case by case.
Connectivity
Any workable path to the internet — fiber, fixed wireless, LTE, or satellite Rarely the blocker. We have run sites on all four.
Timeline

From first email to first hash.

A straightforward wellsite runs [XX][XX] weeks end to end. Permitting is usually the long pole, not construction.

Screen — days 1 to 5

You send volumes, composition, location, and land status. We run it through our screening model and come back with a yes, a no, or the two specific things that would turn a no into a yes. We do not sit on sites.

Term sheet — weeks 2 to 4

Non-binding terms covering structure, price, term, interruption rights, and pad requirements. Signed under NDA, with enough detail that neither side is surprised later.

Diligence — weeks 4 to 10

Site walk, metered gas sampling, title and surface review, permit path confirmation, and a full economic model across hashprice scenarios. This is where a site either earns the build or gets returned to you with our reasoning.

Build — weeks 10 to 20

Pad, foundations, gas conditioning, generation, switchgear, containers, and network. Long-lead equipment is ordered at term-sheet signing, not at the end of diligence, which is how the schedule holds.

Energize and operate

Commissioning, then continuous operation with 24/7 monitoring. You get production reporting on the same cadence as your payments, and a direct line to the people actually running the site.

Emissions

Better than the flare it replaces.

This is not a marketing claim about being green. It is a straightforward comparison against what happens to the gas today.

  • Flares are unreliable. An open flare can blow out in wind or run incomplete, releasing unburned methane — a far more potent greenhouse gas than the CO₂ it would have become.
  • Engines are enclosed and monitored. Combustion happens in a controlled chamber at consistent temperature, achieving substantially higher methane destruction than an intermittent open flame.
  • Venting stops entirely. Where gas is currently vented rather than flared, the improvement is not incremental — it is the difference between releasing methane and destroying it.
  • Measured, not asserted. We meter what we consume and can report volumes and destruction efficiency into your existing environmental reporting. [SPECIFIC REPORTING STANDARDS OR CREDIT PROGRAMS YOU PARTICIPATE IN]
Submit a site

Send us what you have.

You do not need a data room. Volumes, a location, and who controls the land is enough for us to tell you whether it is worth either side’s time.

Prefer email? Write to energy@protonminingco.com. We reply to every submission, including the ones we pass on — with the reason.

Everything you send is treated as confidential. We will sign your NDA before diligence, or send you ours.

This opens a pre-filled message in your mail app addressed to energy@protonminingco.com — nothing is sent until you press send there.

Questions

What owners ask first.

What does this cost me?

Nothing in capital. We fund the generation, the containers, the machines, and the site work. Your exposure is the pad, the energy, and the time your team spends on diligence. If we walk away after diligence, you owe us nothing and keep the site data we produced.

What if I need the gas or the power back?

You take it. Every agreement includes an interruption right — if a pipeline comes in, a better offtake appears, or an operational emergency needs the capacity, we curtail. Mining is the only industrial load that can stop mid-second without spoiling a process or damaging equipment, which is exactly why it fits on an active site.

What happens to my bitcoin exposure?

That is your choice, and it is what the structure decides. A gas or power purchase agreement gives you a fixed price with no bitcoin exposure at all. Revenue share and royalty structures tie your revenue to production, so you take some of the upside and some of the volatility. We will model all three against your site so you are choosing with numbers in front of you.

How much space and noise are we talking about?

Around [X] acres per [X] MW, containerized and fenced. Sound is dominated by the generation set, not the miners, and we specify enclosures to meet [NOISE LIMIT] at the property line. Where setbacks or neighbours are a concern, we design for it before permitting, not after a complaint.

Who handles permits and regulatory exposure?

We do, in your jurisdiction, in our name where the rules allow. Air permitting for the engines, noise, and any local siting approvals are ours to obtain and maintain. You stay the operator of record for your own site — we do not touch your existing compliance obligations.

What happens at the end of the term?

We remove the equipment and restore the pad to the condition agreed at signing, funded by a removal bond established at the start. Alternatively, many partners extend or expand instead — but the exit is written in from day one so it is never a negotiation later.

My volumes are small. Is it worth submitting?

Yes. Small pads are frequently buildable when they can be aggregated with neighbouring sites, and one [XXX] Mcf/d location in the right place can anchor a cluster. Send it. The screening costs you an email and we answer either way.