Deployable Energy

Deployable Energy — Pitch

Deployable Energy is a Texas-based micro nuclear energy company building a sovereign, secure and sustainable energy backbone for defense, critical infrastructure and industry. Deployable Energy builds the Unity Nuclear Battery. It is a 1MW transportable, factory built, sealed plug-and-play power system that fits inside a 20ft shipping container. It outperforms fossil fuels in price and performance with a target next-of-a-kind cost and delivery of 5c/kWh and 6 months, it is modular providing flexible power from 1 - 1000s of MWs, depending on the customer need. Offering greater than 5 years refuel interval with reliable, emissions-free power for critical applications like data centers, mining, oil and gas, remote communities, maritime operations, and dual-use scenarios. We’ve miniaturized proven nuclear technologies using existing supply chains, standard 5% low-enriched fuel and non-exotic materials. Our unique IP overcomes traditional micro-reactor challenges to affordability (high enrichment, exotic materials, prohibitive containment and shielding weight, poor efficiency) to enable mass manufacturing and cost and lead time reductions at automotive scale. Unlike Radiant or Nano or Valor or Antares, our novel proprietary technology that allows us to use non-exotic, readily available materials, and standard low enriched fuels, overcoming key well known bottlenecks for advanced reactors, that will enable us to scale faster at a half the cost of diesel. It’s not about delivery of the first system, its about delivery of the 100s, 1000s, to truly effect change. Think of us disrupting initially the diesel and diesel generator market. We are targeting applications where national security meets energy security and cost of energy – littoral (near shore) and maritime applications in the pacific. From there we can expand to behind the meter and microgrid applications like data centers and energy intensive industry. Our target is to 100,000 units delivered by 2040 with our first "Giga-Watt" (1,000 units a year) factory built by 2031 to deliver on our over $10B in MOU/LOIs related to target markets including Data Centers, Maritime, and Ship-to-Shore Power. The team currently consists of members with a mix of deeptech energy entrepreneur experience, technical and regulatory expertise.

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Microreactors have always been the holy grail for distributed power. Clean, energy dense, on-demand. The nuclear age promised abundance and liberty. So why has it failed to date? What are the barriers to mass adoption that has plague micro-nuclear to take its rightful place as the dominate distributed energy system? At Deployable, we started in 2022 by designing nuclear batteries for subsea and space—a HALEU, TRISO, sodium heat-pipe, reactor concept - cliche. After full supply-chain and techno-economic work, we concluded it wouldn’t mass-produce or mass-deploy due to fuel enrichment constraints, exotic materials and processes, and cost. So we went back to first principles and designed a system to remove the barriers that keep microreactors from displacing diesel at scale: 1. No higher enrichment (no HALEU). Enrichment is the global bottleneck by design (non-proliferation). Staying at standard 5% LEU keeps us inside a robust, scalable fuel supply and eases regulatory acceptance. 2. No exotic materials. Nuclear has been slowed by “materials science projects” (TRISO cladding, metal hydrides, molten salts/metal coolants, superalloys). We use commodity, proven materials (UO₂ fuel, zirconium-alloy cladding, light-water moderation, conventional steels) to ride existing codes, suppliers, and QA. 3. Truly transportable and easy to set up. Diesel wins on logistics. So do we. Factory-built, containerized modules using standardized 20-ft ISO form factors and standard lifting/haulage. Utilizing existing low enriched fuel transportation supply chain (unlike HALEU that requires new logistics systems and regulations to be constructed). Ensuring minimal site work, minimal laydown, repeatable installation. 4. Cost-effective power conversion at small scale. We pair the reactor with efficient, compact power conversion Brayton Cycles engineered for 1 MWe-class outputs— leveraging recent advances in these technologies. 5. Regulatory posture: from adversarial to supportive. By avoiding HALEU and exotic materials, we can align with well-understood LWR physics and industrial norms, shifting regulatory engagement from “novelty skepticism” to “familiar + incremental,” unlocking predictable pathways and faster approvals. Further, recent movements in AI, Energy Transition and national security have made micro nuclear a priority for the US national interest. The Unity Nuclear Battery is the product of these design principles and learnings that can unlock 100,000 units by 2040 at a delivered power cost of 5c / kWh transforming the energy complex.