Power availability is quickly becoming the gating factor for data center and industrial development, and the timelines for bringing new generation online haven't kept pace with demand. Arbor's agreement with GridMarket to deliver up to 5 gigawatts of zero-emission baseload power, starting in 2029, reflects where the market is heading: modular, fast-to-deploy systems that can scale with demand rather than wait on it.

Arbor CEO Brad Hartwig sat down with the Los Angeles Business Journal to talk about why the traditional turbine market can't keep pace with today's load growth, and how Arbor's modular 25-MW gas turbines are designed to bring clean, dependable baseload power online years ahead of conventional procurement timelines.

Arbor CEO and co-founder Brad Hartwig spoke with POWER Magazine about why the traditional gas turbine supply chain can't keep pace with today's load growth, and how Arbor's supercritical CO₂ turbine system is designed to deliver clean, dependable baseload power years ahead of the conventional queue.

This week, Arbor Energy raised a $55 million Series A led by Lowercarbon Capital and Voyager Ventures on the heels of a partial pivot. Its power plant, rather than sticking to a strict vegetarian diet, is going to be more of an omnivore, capable of burning natural gas in addition to biomass. 

Arbor Energy has raised a $55 million Series A for technology that runs on natural gas and can provide always-available, carbon-free electricity. The startup's technology combusts fuel with a stream of oxygen and creates supercritical carbon dioxide to spin a turbine, with the CO2 then captured and stored.

We’ve raised $55M to complete the demonstration of our modular, zero-emission turbine ahead of commercial deployment.

Arbor has landed a $41 million offtake agreement from the Frontier coalition, in one of the advanced market commitment’s largest such deals to date. The contract will help fund Arbor’s first commercial-scale facility in Louisiana, which is expected to come online in 2028.

Frontier, the organization backed by Stripe, Google, and Meta, announced it is paying Arbor Energy to remove 116,000 tons of carbon dioxide by the end of the decade. The deal gives Arbor $41 million to help it build its first commercial-scale power plant in southern Louisiana that will generate electricity for a data center.

Arbor today announced a contract to deliver 25,000 tons of permanent carbon dioxide removal to Microsoft. Starting in 2027, Arbor will support Microsoft’s climate goals by delivering 5,000 tons of carbon removal per year while generating enough clean electricity to power thousands of homes.