Chaves County, New Mexico·8,543 acres·Site secured

Building the future in Chaves County

The Advanced Manufacturing & Energy Campus

On the 8,500-acre Wade Berry Ranch, Zenith Volts is building one integrated campus where clean power, advanced factories, and a local workforce come together. Six industries, powered by 24/7 zero-emission energy, all built to employ Chaves County.

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Battery manufacturing Fuel-cell manufacturing Green-metal recycling AI data centers Advanced construction materials Organic fertilizer

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The Model

Two campuses. Six industries. Thousands of careers.

Most large projects import their power, their products, and their workforce. Zenith Volts does the opposite. It generates its own clean power, manufactures the equipment it needs on site, and trains local residents to run it. The AI data center anchors the economics: its contracted revenue capitalizes the factories, the jobs, and the training, keeping that value in Chaves County instead of sending it elsewhere.

Generate

Own clean power, produced on site, 24/7.

Manufacture

Equipment and products built locally.

Train

Local residents run every operation.

Retain

Value stays in Chaves County.

The Campus

Six industries, one campus

Co-located on the same ground, sharing the same clean-power backbone. Each line can stand alone, but together they close the loop: energy, materials, compute, and agriculture, all reinforcing one another.

Batteries

Domestically produced liquid-sodium cells for grid and industrial storage.

Fuel Cells

Zero-emission solid-oxide power generation, no flame, no smokestack.

Recycled Metal

Green steel and aluminum re-refined from scrap using clean campus power.

AI Compute

Hyperscale data centers, behind the meter, high-density modular build.

Construction Materials

Nano graphene-enhanced concrete, basalt-fiber rebar, and 3D printing.

Organic Fertilizer

Closing the loop with local agriculture through in-county NPK production.

Cattle keep grazing. Agrivoltaic solar-sharing keeps the land a working ranch.

The Opportunity

The markets we serve are measured in the trillions

Chaves County won't just host these factories, it will sell into the largest industrial markets on earth. Worldwide demand for what this campus produces adds up to more than $2 trillion a year by 2030.

$2T+

Total addressable demand

Per year, across all six product lines by 2030

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Campus share of its markets

Offtake is effectively unlimited

2× digit

Annual market growth

Every product line sits in a double-digit growth market

Third-party market estimates; ranges vary by source. This campus represents a fraction of one percent of its addressable markets.

The Site

Why Roswell & Chaves County is the right ground

Chaves County has the land, the sun, the natural gas, and the workforce to host advanced manufacturing. Historically those high-wage industries were built elsewhere. Co-locating the energy and the factories on the same ground changes that.

World-Class Sun

About 280 sunny days a year, among the strongest solar resources in the U.S., and the cheapest way to power energy-hungry factories.

Abundant Natural Gas

A fully executed Mack Energy supply of pipeline-quality sweet gas, feedstock for fuel-cell power and high-temperature industrial heat.

Room to Build

One contiguous 8,500-acre site, already zoned and permitted, big enough for every industry plus its own power generation.

Federal Energy Community

Federal Energy Community status improves the economics of clean-energy and manufacturing investment across the campus.

Trainable Workforce

Agricultural, mechanical, dairy-automation and oilfield skills translate directly into plant operations, supported by ENMU-Roswell and NMSU.

Diversified Demand

Driven by AI computing, domestic battery supply, and U.S. metal independence, demand that doesn't track the local commodity cycle.

The Economic Anchor

AI data centers, powered behind the meter

Modular, behind-the-meter AI data centers deliver high-density compute in factory-built modules, powered directly by the on-site clean-energy backbone.

Because the compute sits behind the meter, every kilowatt flows straight to the servers with no grid transmission fees and no interconnection-queue delay. That is exactly what makes the site attractive to hyperscale and enterprise AI tenants.

Hyperscale tenancy LOI in hand Closed-loop geothermal cooling No transmission fees No interconnection queue

Jobs: operations technicians, electricians, network engineers, security, and facilities staff.

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IT load capacity, full modular build

Dedicated fiber, on-site connectivity

CoolingClosed-loop geothermal

TenancyLOI secured

Grid dependencyNone · behind-the-meter

Signed JV · December 2025

Battery manufacturing with BioLargo Cellinity

A signed joint venture with BioLargo, Inc. to manufacture its Cellinity battery: a domestically produced liquid-sodium chemistry built for grid and industrial storage, superior in key respects to lithium-ion.

Zenith is licensed to manufacture Cellinity in New Mexico factories. Locating cell manufacturing on a campus that makes its own clean power and houses its own storage demand is a rare, vertically integrated advantage. U.S.-made cells reduce dependence on imported supply chains and qualify for federal advanced-manufacturing support.

Jobs: line operators, technicians, quality engineers, materials handlers, and maintenance. The clearest entry-level-to-career ladder on campus.

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Battery-cell line draw within modular build

Signed

JV: licensor, minority owner, engineering partner

ChemistryLiquid-sodium Cellinity

PartnerBioLargo, Inc.

LicensingManufacture in NM

Turning a bottleneck into an industry

Fuel-cell manufacturing, non-combustion by design

Solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFC) make electricity electrochemically from natural gas, with no flame, no smokestack, and essentially zero air pollution. No nitrogen-oxide, sulfur-oxide, or particulate pollution: clean power with a profile combustion plants cannot match.

Because the project needs these units at gigawatt scale and the global supply is constrained, Zenith Volts is building in-region manufacturing and assembly rather than relying on imports.

Mitsubishi Power MEGAMIE-class SOFC Procured via Inabata Ceres Power license path

Jobs: precision-manufacturing technicians, assembly staff, test engineers, plus a supply chain of local fabrication and machining vendors.

01 TechnologyMitsubishi MEGAMIE SOFC

02 Manufacturing pathCeres license · EPIC assembly

03 Local jobsPrecision techs · vendors

Emissions profileZero NOx · SOx · PM

Signed 15-year take-or-pay · December 2025

Green-metal steel & aluminum recycling

Advanced Alloys, LLC will operate a 40-acre green-metal recycling plant on the campus, melting and re-refining scrap steel and aluminum into new domestic metal using clean campus power and high-temperature fuel-cell heat in place of fossil-fired furnaces.

Recycled-metal production is one of the most job-rich, energy-intensive industries in manufacturing, and one of the cleanest ways to make steel and aluminum when the energy is zero-emission. This is contracted demand, not speculative.

Jobs: furnace and melt-line operators, metallurgists, crane and logistics crews, plus a regional scrap-collection network.

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Dedicated plant footprint

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Take-or-pay agreement term

Power rightsup to 200MW

Natural gas200MMBTU/d

Water250kgal/d

Nano Graphene Technologies

Advanced construction materials, made on site

The same materials and systems that build the campus become products the campus sells. Next-generation building materials, manufactured in Chaves County, delivering the promise of sustainable green construction.

Basalt-Graphene Concrete

Stronger, faster-setting, and more durable than traditional Portland cement, and it can even be mixed with saltwater.

BFRP Basalt-Fiber Rebar

Non-corroding, three times stronger and 4.5 times lighter than steel rebar.

Super Strong System

A building system that cuts materials costs by 30 to 50 percent.

Concrete 3D-Printing

Cable-suspended printers that build walls and whole structures on site, around the clock.

Energy Walls

Supercapacitor-integrated walls that store and release energy: structure and storage in one.

Concrete Recycling

Recycled aggregate for a circular materials loop, with nothing wasted.

Jobs: machine operators, materials technicians, fabrication and field crews, plus a construction-materials export business for a national market.

Closing the loop

Organic fertilizer, made locally

Zenith Volts will produce organic NPK fertilizer and soil amendments in Chaves County, closing the loop between energy, agriculture, and the land.

Locally made fertilizer keeps supply and dollars in the county, supports the working ranch and area farms, and turns the campus's own organic and carbon streams into a productive product instead of waste.

Jobs: production, blending, packaging, logistics, and ag-support roles throughout the county.

ProductOrganic NPK & amendments

SupportsLocal ranching & farming

DesignClosed-loop · circular

Homegrown Product Lines

Designed in Chaves County. Built in Chaves County.

Zenith Volts is not just building a campus, it is launching the product lines that campus will manufacture. Both flagship products are in active development: engineering packages complete, preliminary specifications published, and eight U.S. provisional patent applications prepared and to be filed.

FC-40 · In Development

Containerized Fuel-Cell Power Module

What it is: 500 kW-class of firm, non-combustion electric power, designed into a standard 40-foot shipping container.

How it works: Runs on abundant domestic natural gas using solid-oxide fuel-cell technology, engineered for up to 60% electrical efficiency.

Clean by design: Process CO2 is captured, liquefied, and sold as a merchant-grade product instead of vented. Process water is reclaimed and reused inside the unit. The rooftop exhaust is warm air only.

Preliminary specifications. Product in development; figures are design targets.

ZV-PT · In Development

Power Transformers, Made in Chaves County

The opportunity: America is critically short of transformers. Lead times for distribution transformers now run 30 to 50-plus weeks and prices are up roughly 77% since 2019. Every solar plant, battery site, and data center needs them.

The product: Three-phase, liquid-filled pad-mount and skid transformers from 500 kVA to 5 MVA, 15 to 35 kV class, filled with biodegradable ester fluid, designed to meet DOE 2029 efficiency and IEEE C57 standards.

Built-in first customer: The Zenith campus itself needs hundreds of these units, with planned output growing to 15 to 25 units per week for outside customers as the line scales.

Preliminary specifications. Product in development; figures are design targets.

Homegrown intellectual property

Eight U.S. provisional patent applications prepared and to be filed, intellectual property created for and manufactured in Chaves County. Together with the signed BioLargo battery JV and the Advanced Alloys green-metal offtake, these are the first entries in a growing made-in-Chaves-County catalog.

The Energy Backbone

The clean-power foundation that powers it all

Abundant, around-the-clock, low-cost clean power is the foundation, and it is built first.

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Agrivoltaic Solar

Cattle graze beneath the panels; land stays a working ranch

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Battery Storage

Shifts solar power into the night and firms the supply

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Fuel-Cell Power

Zero-emission, 24/7 firm baseload from natural gas

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Daily Gas Supply

Mack Energy sweet gas at $3.50/Mcf floor, fully executed

Non-combustion means no nitrogen-oxide, sulfur-oxide, or particulate pollution. The CO₂ comes off in a concentrated, capture-ready stream suited to permanent storage in the Permian Basin: firm 24/7 power with a clean-air profile a combustion plant cannot match.

Water-Light by Design

Advanced compute, without draining the aquifer

The data center runs dry: air-cooled operation with no aquifer draw for cooling, backed by a closed-loop geothermal system that uses recycled oil-field water. In a water-stressed region, that is the difference between a project the community welcomes and one it fights.

It is one piece of a broader commitment: environmental-impact assessment across the entire supply chain, and a target of carbon-negative operations by 2027.

No aquifer draw for cooling Closed-loop geothermal Recycled oil-field water

Carbon Negative by 2027

Committed to carbon-negative operations campus-wide.

Save the Seven Seas

Proud supporter of the Save the Seven Seas Foundation.

Supply-Chain Review

Environmental-impact assessment across the whole chain.

Community Education

Renewable-energy education for local communities.

Status

Built on assets already in hand

This is not a proposal built on promises. The foundational assets are executed, approved, and in place.

Land

~8,543 acres, Wade Berry Ranch. Land Sale Agreement executed.

Zoning

Chaves County Special Use Permit Z-2025-04. Approved, paid, runs with the land.

Environmental

Environmental Impact Assessment filed.

Natural Gas

Mack Energy. Fully executed supply agreement.

Water & Cooling

Secured water rights and a closed-loop geothermal cooling system.

Fiber

100G dedicated internet access under signed agreement.

Decommissioning: a phased financial-assurance plan is filed, scaling with installed capacity.

The Investment

The largest private investment in county history

The first project, solar, storage, and the data-center core, carries a construction basis of approximately $10.0 billion, reviewed by Withum Smith+Brown, with the full multi-industry campus measured in the tens of billions.

Senior Project Debt

Primary financing layer for construction and infrastructure.

Institutional Equity

Including Japanese institutional capital through the Inabata channel.

Federal Tax Credits

Clean-energy tax-credit position reviewed by Withum Smith+Brown, diversified across solar, storage, and geothermal.

The point for Chaves County

This brings capital, construction, and permanent payroll into Chaves County, not out of it.

Detailed capital structure available to county and state economic-development partners under confidentiality.

Leadership

The team behind the build

Decades of operating experience across energy, heavy manufacturing, finance, and advanced engineering, brought together to develop one campus.

Stephen H. Smoot

Chairman

Four decades in foreign technology development and transfer; funded laminar-flow research yielding U.S. patents and commercial applications.

Wolfgang Rempen

Chief Executive Officer

50 years of international management across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe; a top New Mexico land and ranch broker and organic cattle rancher.

Charlotte Luer

President

25+ years in financial marketing and branding for Fortune 500s, hedge funds, and family offices; CEO of LJH Financial Marketing Strategies.

Nick Coleman

Project Manager Engineer

Entrepreneur and financial-structure engineer; has built 50+ companies and developed 3,000+ acres, structuring complex acquisitions and listings.

Kenneth Webb

Analytics Manager

25 years in institutional investment management across credit, utility, and real-estate funds; EE, Summa Cum Laude, University of Michigan.

Mohammad Haseeb

Solar PV Engineer

8+ years and 200+ MW of solar PV delivered across utility, industrial, commercial, and military projects, end to end through EPC and PPA.

Dr. Paul Tinari, Ph.D., P.Eng

Consultant

Contributor to the International Space Station cooling system and a Nobel Prize in Physics nominee; pioneer of rapid 3D-printed construction.

Dr. Gregory Carmichael

CEO, Nano Graphene Technologies

Former U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot; pioneer of basalt-graphene concrete and supercapacitor systems for infrastructure and energy storage.

Phased Build

Jobs from the first phase, not just at completion

Because the campus is modular, employment begins early and grows steadily. Residents don't wait years for a single ribbon-cutting. The community sees results at every stage.

Phase 0 · Mobilization

Site prep & energy backbone

First modular block and energy-backbone start. First local hires begin.

Phase 1 · First Block Online

Data center & pilot generation

Initial data center, storage, and pilot generation. First permanent jobs created.

Phase 2 · Vertical Build-Out

Factory lines scale up

Recycling, battery line, fuel-cell assembly, construction-materials and fertilizer lines scale up. Bulk of hiring.

Phase 3 · Full Campus

Workforce at full strength

Modular blocks repeat. Workforce at full strength; Foundation pipeline mature.

Community

The Zenith Volts Community Foundation

A proposed Chaves County 501(c)(3) non-profit with a single mission: move local residents into permanent campus careers, so the people who live closest to the campus are first in line for the jobs it creates.

Serves First

Lake Arthur, Dexter, Hagerman, and Roswell. The communities closest to the campus get priority access to every opportunity.

Train

Apprenticeships and certifications with ENMU-Roswell, NMSU, and Roswell ISD (FFA / 4-H). Credentials that lead to careers.

Place

Local-first hiring with published local-hire targets and on-site career navigators guiding residents into permanent roles.

Support

Scholarships, transportation and childcare assistance, plus local procurement and supplier-diversity programs.

Funded by an ongoing share of campus payroll and revenue, leveraged to capture state and federal workforce dollars (JTIP, LEDA, U.S. DOL apprenticeships, USDA). Proposed structure; charter, funding formula, and board to be finalized with county and community input.

Partners

A network of signed agreements

Joint ventures and institutional relationships, not letters of intent alone.

Zenith Volts Corporation

Developer and campus owner. The integrating entity bringing all industries together on one site.

EPIC

In-house engineering, procurement and contracting, keeping design and build expertise on campus.

Advanced Alloys, LLC

Green-metal recycling.

Signed 15-yr take-or-pay · Dec 2025

BioLargo / Cellinity

Battery-manufacturing joint venture. Technology licensor, minority owner, and engineering partner.

Signed JV · Dec 2025

Nano Graphene Technologies

Advanced construction materials: basalt-graphene concrete, BFRP rebar, PermaStrong system, and 3D printing.

Inabata & Co.

Japanese procurement channel. Sourcing fuel-cell units and connecting Japanese institutional capital and the Export-Import Bank of Japan.

Mack Energy Corporation

Natural-gas supply.

Fully executed agreement

Withum Smith+Brown

Independent federal tax-credit analysis and construction-basis review.

Roswell-Chaves County EDC

Economic-development partnership.

Tinari Energy Management

3D-printed structures integrated with graphene-basalt concrete, rebar, and supercapacitors for storage and EMP protection.

Security & Risk Partner

Brad Wilson

Founder, TriStar Security Services

We provide integrated physical risk management for critical infrastructure projects. Campus security staffed by active and retired law enforcement and military veterans, trained in current threat-response practices.

Next Steps

From plan to jobs on the ground

The assets are in hand. The agreements are signed. The next steps are about partnership: with the county, the schools, and the community.

Confirm the Numbers

Commission a third-party economic-impact and workforce study to validate job and investment projections.

Charter the Foundation

Establish the Community Foundation with county and community input: board, charter, and funding formula.

Sign a Local-Benefit MOU

Formalize local hire, procurement, and training commitments with the Roswell-Chaves County EDC.

Align the Schools

Build training tracks with ENMU-Roswell, NMSU, and Roswell ISD, FFA and 4-H pipelines included.

Coordinate Incentives

Activate JTIP, LEDA, DOL, and USDA programs to maximize state and federal support for local workforce development.

Building a manufacturing economy for Chaves County. Let's build it together.

Building the future in Chaves County

Two campuses. Six industries. Thousands of careers.

Generate

Manufacture

Train

Retain

What it means for Chaves County

Six industries, one campus

Batteries

Fuel Cells

Recycled Metal

AI Compute

Construction Materials

Organic Fertilizer

The markets we serve are measured in the trillions

Why Roswell & Chaves County is the right ground

World-Class Sun

Abundant Natural Gas

Room to Build

Federal Energy Community

Trainable Workforce

Diversified Demand

AI data centers, powered behind the meter

Battery manufacturing with BioLargo Cellinity

Fuel-cell manufacturing, non-combustion by design

Green-metal steel & aluminum recycling

Advanced construction materials, made on site

Basalt-Graphene Concrete

BFRP Basalt-Fiber Rebar

Super Strong System

Concrete 3D-Printing

Energy Walls

Concrete Recycling

Organic fertilizer, made locally

Designed in Chaves County. Built in Chaves County.

Containerized Fuel-Cell Power Module

Power Transformers, Made in Chaves County

Homegrown intellectual property

The clean-power foundation that powers it all

Advanced compute, without draining the aquifer

Carbon Negative by 2027

Save the Seven Seas

Supply-Chain Review

Community Education

Built on assets already in hand

Land

Zoning

Environmental

Natural Gas

Water & Cooling

Fiber

The largest private investment in county history

Senior Project Debt

Institutional Equity

Federal Tax Credits

The point for Chaves County

The team behind the build

Jobs from the first phase, not just at completion

Site prep & energy backbone

Data center & pilot generation

Factory lines scale up

Workforce at full strength

The Zenith Volts Community Foundation

A network of signed agreements

Latest from Zenith Volts

Project Update: A Phased Path Forward in Chaves County

Zenith Volts and BioLargo Form Battery Joint Venture

Zenith Volts and Advanced Alloys Sign Green-Metal Agreement

From plan to jobs on the ground

Confirm the Numbers

Charter the Foundation

Sign a Local-Benefit MOU

Align the Schools

Coordinate Incentives

The land is secured. The agreements are signed. The next move is yours.