Demand For Electricity To Double

UniGen Power Inc. has developed the revolutionary UPI 1000TA – a one megawatt (1,000,000-watt) power generator that outperforms incumbent technology by virtually every metric. Designed from inception to burn clean natural gas, UPI’s proprietary radial engine-powered genset is low-emission, lightweight, compact, versatile, and mobile. With an all-inclusive operating cost of less than $0.05 per kWh, the UPI 1000TA is equally effective as a prime energy source or as emergency / standby power.

THE DISRUPTIVE NEW UNIGEN TECHNOLOGY

 By applying cutting-edge design and manufacturing tools, methods, and materials, UniGen improves upon the time-tested and iconic, 9-cylinder, aircraft radial engine. UniGen redefines the durability of a radial engine to industrial standards by adding fluid cooling for versatility (US Patent 10,480,388) and integrating a sophisticated, proprietary control and remote monitoring system. Taken together, our modernized, radial engine-driven generator – the UPI 1000TA genset – is smaller, lighter, quieter, greener, less expensive, more efficient, and easier to maintain than any existing 1.0-megawatt capable power source on the market.

MARKET AND APPLICATION

 The distributed energy offered by the UPI 1000TA equally meets needs in urban and rural environments, in both developed and developing regions. It’s one megawatt rating is ideal for use in office towers, on oil-drilling platforms, at construction sites, in data centers, atop manufacturing facilities, within residential subdivisions, and in virtually every location needing substantial clean, quiet, cost-efficient power. Because the UPI 1000TA is fueled by natural gas (or any other spark-ignited gaseous fuel, including hydrogen), the cost of energy per kWh, is substantially less than the price available from the grid or other sources including battery-backed solar. The UPI 1000TA is the clean economical solution for primary and backup power.

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

 UniGen’s products, led by its UPI 1000TA, offer significant advantages over existing power technologies in the one-megawatt space. The dominant incumbents, diesel engine-powered gensets (including those retrofitted to run on natural gas), are poorly equipped to meet growing demand for affordable, clean, quiet, localized power. They are expensive, large, and inefficient, lacking the versatility and mobility of the UPI 1000TA.

THE PATH FORWARD

The first production validation unit is scheduled to be completed in 2027, at which time extensive high-powered testing, production validation and its EPA, CARB, and UL certifications, genset supporting systems, and enclosures design to begin producing saleable machines to satisfy an existing $12 million purchase order.  Mass production will then continue to ramp up thereafter to fulfill other pending orders.

UniGen’s nine-cylinder, 30 liter, 1,550hp radial engine, the heart of our genset, is a patented highly modernized and industrialized version of the mass-produced Pratt and Whitney / Curtis Wright R1820 engine the prime power for many World War II aircraft and used extensively from the 1930’s into the early 1960’s.  Over 175,000 of these engines were produced for the War and thereafter. On November 19, 2019, UniGen received a USPTO Patent for our liquid-cooled version of this engine.  We believe our proprietary design is the only viable pathway to commercialization of a radial engine-powered genset, thus creating an effective barrier to competitive, industrial-scale engines and gensets.

* In 2031 with 2,500 Genset Units built, this represents an estimated international industry market share of less than 2%.