Frontieras North America Launches FASGEN™: A Breakthrough Platform to Preserve, Expand, and Revalue the U.S. Coal Fleet as AI Energy Demand Explodes
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Frontieras North America, the U.S.-based clean hydrocarbon innovation company behind the patented FASForm™ Solid Carbon Fractionation technology, today announced the completion of feasibility engineering for FASGEN™ — a transformational, co-located energy platform designed to preserve, modernize, and dramatically expand the value of the U.S. coal-fired power fleet in direct response to the unprecedented energy demands now being driven by artificial intelligence, hyperscale data centers, robotics, defense systems, and advanced manufacturing.
As AI-driven electricity demand accelerates across the United States — a reality now openly acknowledged across the media, the technology sector, utilities, and capital markets — FASGEN™ emerges as the most direct, capital-efficient, and infrastructure-ready pathway to deliver abundant, reliable, dispatchable baseload power at national scale.
FASGEN™ enables existing coal plants to evolve from at-risk legacy assets into next-generation energy and fuels platforms, capable of powering the AI and robotics economy without decommissioning, without subsidies, and without rebuilding the grid from scratch.
“The AI economy is not coming — it is here,” said Matthew McKean, Chief Executive Officer of Frontieras North America. “And it is exposing a hard truth: the United States cannot power the next industrial revolution with intermittent energy or theoretical solutions. FASGEN™ preserves the coal fleet not as it was, but as it must become — cleaner, more productive, more valuable, and indispensable to America’s technological future.”
Joe Witherspoon, P.E., Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Frontieras, and inventor of the FASForm™ process, added:
“FASForm™ and FASGEN™ represent a rare inflection point in industrial energy — the introduction of a new, scalable, and profitable category of hydrocarbon technology. We are not asking coal plants to change what they are; we are allowing them to finally operate at their full thermodynamic and economic potential. By extracting volatile energy components before combustion, FASGEN™ fundamentally improves efficiency, emissions performance, and yield structure. This is engineered reality, not theory — and it is deployable now at the scale demanded by AI, robotics, and modern industry.”
Coal Repositioned as a Strategic National Asset in the AI Era
FASGEN™ integrates directly with existing coal-fired power plants, intercepting coal before combustion and upgrading it through the FASForm™ process into multiple high-value energy streams, including:
- FASCarbon™ — a clean-burning, coke-like solid carbon fuel that replaces untreated coal for power generation
- High-value liquid fuels, including diesel, naphtha, and kerosene (jet fuel)
- Hydrogen, produced on-site and used for fuel upgrading and internal energy requirements
- Fertilizer and industrial chemicals, including ammonium sulfate and sulfuric acid
- Methane, recycled as on-site process fuel
The remaining solid carbon — FASCarbon™ — is fed into the existing power plant in place of untreated coal. With ultra-low sulfur content (with more than 90% of sulfur removed from the coal) and near-complete combustion, FASCarbon™ dramatically reduces SOx, mercury, and particulate emissions while improving heat rates, fuel efficiency, and overall plant performance.
By extracting value before combustion, FASGEN™ converts coal plants from single-output generators into multi-revenue industrial energy hubs, while materially improving environmental performance and economics.
Powering the AI, Robotics, and Data Center Supercycle
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, advanced robotics, and autonomous industrial systems is placing unprecedented strain on an already constrained U.S. power grid. These technologies require always-on, high-density baseload power — a requirement that intermittent energy sources cannot meet alone.
FASGEN™ directly addresses this challenge by preserving existing coal plants already connected to transmission infrastructure, rapidly expanding dispatchable capacity without decade-long permitting timelines, delivering the energy density required to support AI-scale compute loads, and stabilizing regional grids under rising peak demand.
Each FASGEN™ deployment effectively transforms an existing coal plant into a strategic energy node, capable of supporting the next generation of American innovation, industrial productivity, and national security.
Valuation Expansion Through Asset Preservation and Yield Multiplication
FASGEN™ represents a fundamental re-rating opportunity for coal-linked infrastructure across the United States.
Rather than decommissioning plants at impairment-level valuations, FASGEN™ enables asset owners and stakeholders to extend asset life by decades, unlock entirely new on-site revenue streams beyond electricity sales, reduce regulatory, environmental, and compliance exposure, and convert stranded infrastructure into cash-generating, future-proof platforms.
For Frontieras, scalable deployment of FASGEN™ across the U.S. coal fleet represents one of the most significant near-term value creation opportunities in the North American energy market, directly aligned with the fastest-growing demand driver of the decade: artificial intelligence.
Flagship West Virginia Facility: From Groundbreaking to Commissioning
Frontieras’ flagship $850 million FASForm™ facility in Mason County, West Virginia represents the cornerstone of the company’s commercialization strategy and a tangible demonstration of execution momentum.
The project has a scheduled ground-breaking ceremony on April 2, 2026, marking the transition from engineering and capital formation into full-scale construction. The facility is designed to process approximately 7,500 tons of coal per day and is expected to create hundreds of permanent jobs and thousands of construction jobs, while anchoring a new industrial energy hub in the Appalachian region.
Commissioning of the West Virginia facility is targeted for 2028, aligning plant startup with contracted offtake, grid integration, and downstream market demand. Once operational, the facility will serve as the reference platform for national and international deployment of both FASForm™ and FASGEN™ systems.
A No-Subsidy, Zero-Waste Solution Built for Reality
FASGEN™ is a zero-waste, high-margin energy solution that operates without reliance on government subsidies, tax credits, or speculative carbon markets. Built on validated industrial processes and engineered for commercial deployment, FASGEN™ offers a pragmatic pathway forward at a time when energy demand is rising faster than new generation can be built.
With more than 200 U.S. coal plants facing decommissioning despite surging electricity demand, FASGEN™ provides a practical, immediate alternative that aligns energy security, economic value, and technological progress.
National Deployment Underway
Frontieras is actively engaging utilities, power plant owners, and asset operators across the United States as interest accelerates in solutions capable of meeting AI-era energy loads.
For project feasibility and deployment inquiries:
ProjectInquiries@frontieras.com
www.frontieras.com
About Frontieras North America
Frontieras North America is a clean hydrocarbon innovation company pioneering Solid Carbon Fractionation (SCF) through its patented FASForm™ technology. The company transforms coal and other hydrocarbons into clean-burning fuels, hydrogen, fertilizer, and industrial chemicals — with zero waste, real yields, and no reliance on subsidies.
Frontieras’ mission is to deliver abundant, affordable, and available energy to power the future of artificial intelligence, industrial growth, food security, and American prosperity.
Investment Opportunity – Regulation A+ Offering
As Frontieras advances toward commercialization, the company is inviting individual investors to participate in its growth through an SEC-qualified Regulation A+ offering. This public offering provides individual investors with the opportunity to become early shareholders in a company that is redefining the entire global sector of coal utilization.
The Reg A+ offering enables direct ownership in Frontieras as it commercializes patented, zero-waste, high-yield hydrocarbon technology designed to meet the energy demands of AI, industry, and national infrastructure.
More information is available at:
www.invest.frontieras.com