Project Innovation
The DELTA Lab’s purpose is to deploy innovative and clean energy technologies with the ultimate goal of diversifying the region’s economy and providing energy companies speed to market related to testing and project development. Its project portfolio represents the spectrum of technologies and related industrial operations, including solar, wind, hydrogen, energy storage, pumped-storage hydro, energy efficient data centers and other emerging energy technologies.
Data Center Ridge
The 400-acre “Data Center Ridge” site development project will be the catalyst for the most sustainable and energy efficient data center cluster in the world. Located in Southwest Virginia’s Wise County, the campus has the potential to be home to over 1 gigawatt of hyperscale data centers with access to 6+ billion gallons of cool underground water as well as robust behind-the-meter clean and renewable energy.
Project Oasis
Project Oasis defines Southwest Virginia as a location of choice in the Commonwealth for data centers based on power and broadband infrastructure along with the use of geothermal cooling technology with the billions of gallons of water collected in underground mines as a significant energy and cost-savings tool.
Project Energizer
Project Energizer is taking a disruptive approach to traditional pumped-storage hydro with a small-scale, modular system that can be deployed with very little land disturbance made from off-the-shelf components. By pairing this system with wind and solar power generation, Southwest Virginia has the potential of deploying a small-scale, affordable and proven base-load renewable energy solution for local high-tech and industrial applications.