EIC’s breakthrough isothermal gas compression-expansion platform, known as Liquid Watts (LW), seamlessly integrates with customer systems whether they produce, distribute, or use energy—to increase their efficiencies, capacity factors, and product value. Traditional compressors operate adiabatically, heating gases during compression and requiring additional energy to reach target pressures. This process also necessitates shedding the generated heat, adding inefficiencies. In contrast, EIC’s isothermal system compresses gases with minimal temperature change, drastically reducing energy consumption while avoiding the heat dissipation.
The LW platform addresses one of the most pressing climate challenges: the high cost of large-scale, long-duration energy storage. By leveraging surplus solar or wind energy, the platform efficiently compresses air to high pressures for storage in spent oil and gas reservoirs or at-surface vessels. This compressed air can be expanded on demand to generate electricity, delivering firm 24×7 power at costs comparable to or lower than natural gas plants. This makes LW the preferred solution for new power projects, a market worth over $700 billion annually.
Beyond energy storage, the LW platform supports diverse applications, including:
- Cost reductions in green hydrogen and ammonia production.
- Efficient power and cooling solutions for AI data centers.
- Significant energy savings in HVAC systems and industrial gas compression.
EIC licenses its LW designs to OEM integrators and partners, who assemble and integrate standardized modules into customer systems using design-to-build specifications and a precertified component supply chain. Licensees also gain access to the LW online AI platform, which automates processes from design to build to operations support. EIC’s asset-light and scalable business model generates recurring revenues through design licensing and online software subscriptions, while enabling its licensees and partners to create and capture greater value for and from their customers.
EIC’s isothermal gas compression-expansion technology serves as a pivotal differentiator. Its liquid piston design delivers significant advantages in cost, time-to-market, and operations, utilizing 90% fewer moving parts and commercially available components. Moreover, AI-enabled automation optimizes the design, construction, and operation of plants, while facilitating the development of new Liquid Watts (LW) applications. The LW platform has been certified by a highly reputed international certification agency and is protected by over 20 issued and pending patents.
EIC is currently in early deployments with strategic customers, focusing on applications featured throughout these web pages.
Vision: To accelerate the green energy transition by providing economically compelling alternatives that replace both new and legacy fossil fuel-based systems across the entire energy chain—production, distribution, and consumption.
Mission: To empower industrial energy producers, distributors, and consumers to achieve significant energy savings through our energy-efficient, versatile LW platform of isothermal gas compressors and expanders. Our mission is to simplify and de-risk their transition to green energy, while ensuring efficient operations.
Strategy: We leverage the power of an LW investment to yield quick and superior returns for its customers and partners. Our success hinges on accelerating growth across large markets before capital-intensive, high-cost alternatives become entrenched. We enable this by partnering with innovation-motivated industry players already serving their markets, offering them the ability to gain large market and value share increases at minimal costs. The LW platform will continue to create value for both customers and partners through ongoing innovations in hardware and process optimization, alongside AI-powered automation that streamlines the full cycle from design to build to operations.
Values: EIC’s success is rooted in the quality of its collaboration and the amount of value it creates for customers and partners. We’ve cultivated an open, creative, and entrepreneurial work environment that attracts bold, experienced individuals. Our culture fosters partnerships and effective collaboration both internally and externally. As techno-optimists, we integrate AI into our products as well as in our internal and external collaborations, while continuously innovating on the LW platform and its applications.
Market Opportunity: We are competing for new power plant projects by offering a cheaper, green alternative, with a market value of $700 billion. Additionally, we are targeting the $500 billion market for gas compressor-expanders used in HVAC, process, and manufacturing industries, alongside a potential $1-2 trillion market in replacing legacy equipment. Over the next decade, this could drive a multi-trillion-dollar market, accelerating decarbonization through technology adoption.
Team: Our team comprises experienced entrepreneurs and executives from diverse fields, including gas turbine and power plant design, EPC, process and oil & gas, data centers, software, and AI. Through cross-silo collaboration and partnerships with industry, we’ve forged a strong common purpose: creating customer value while advancing climate-friendly solutions, driven by market forces. and natural causes.