The Carbon Revolution®
Circon develops and operates energy facilities that divert waste from landfills and convert it into baseload electricity, clean fuels, and industrial commodities — with a negative lifecycle carbon footprint. NO incineration. NO burning waste. NO wasted resources.
22,708
MW
of energy infrastructure developed by our leadership team
50+
years
of building energy infrastructure, the careers behind Circon
4
modular stages
engineered once and repeated at every project with no first-of-a-kind risk
5
revenue lines
commercial flexibility routes feedstock to the highest-value commodity
600+
permanent jobs
with a further ~4,350 indirect jobs affiliated with our first project
The problem
2.56bn tonnes
of municipal solid waste generated worldwide in 2022 — on course for 3.86 billion by 2050.
655million
people still without access to electricity in 2024, with the global access rate stalled at 92%.
These are usually treated as separate problems, managed by separate agencies, funded from separate budgets. They are not separate.
Waste is an overlooked resource — a recoverable commodity mislabeled as a liability. Circon represents commercially proven technology, contracted feedstock, diversified revenues, and experienced operators to correct this error at industrial scale — in the places where both problems are most acute at once.
How it works
Incineration burns waste, releasing carbon and hazardous emissions. Pyrolysis heats waste resources in the absence of oxygen, so it CANNOT burn. What results is clean synthetic fuels and solid carbon — products, not hazardous consequences.
Municipal organics, waste plastics, end-of-life tires, biomass, storm debris and industrial residues — energy-dense streams diverted from landfills and from the natural environment, secured under long-term sourcing agreements at a contingency scale beyond the facility's requirement.
Modular conversion units break the feedstock down into syngas and solids. Sealed and oxygen-free, NO combustion of waste. Each conversion module can run a dedicated feedstock class in normal operation, but is capable of processing alternate feeds — so a scarce, more expensive or quality-impacted stream can be swapped for another to maintain uptime.
Syngas from high-quality feedstocks is converted to liquid fuels, while feedstocks with high oxygen and moisture content are converted to high-pressure, high-temperature steam — BTUs in, BTUs out. This maximizes quality and enhances dual-path power production through any feedstock interruption, maintenance or unplanned disruptions.
Clean fuels and steam drive turbines that produce firm 24/7/365 power to the grid. The solid materials are separated into recovered carbon black, biochar, biocarbon, steel and non-ferrous metals and sold into industrial and agricultural markets.
What we produce
Most waste projects have one product, one source, and one customer. Our circular economy solution offers a bankable risk profile with contracted core revenues complemented by multiple ancillary income streams that enhance financial flexibility and downside protection.
Baseload dispatchable generation that closes the gap intermittent renewables leave on grids — when the sun doesn't shine, the wind is not right, the weather does not cooperate, and fossil fuels are too expensive.
ASTM-compliant clean fuel fractions with NO sulfur, for transportation, industrial fuel blending and emergency fuel offtakes.
Biocarbon safely returned to the ground to enhance water retention, improve crop yield, and remediate once-contaminated soil.
Materials recovered in a form industry can buy back and reuse rather than bury.
Verified methodologies and digital credits to divert waste, reduce emissions, and lower the overall carbon lifecycle of resource utilization.
Five co-products.Five markets.
No single price curve or offtake decides whether a facility works. That is what makes the model bankable — and extends the value to the people and communities the facility serves.
Where we work
Starting in the Caribbean, anywhere struggling to manage waste, improve energy resiliency, and stabilize cost is an opportunity for our circular economy solution.
Select a market for its note. Nothing on this list has a site, a permit or a contract.
Who we work with
Circon’s approach is deliberately unexotic: commercially available, off-the-shelf modular equipment from established suppliers, validated by independent research institutions, integrated by a team that has commissioned 22,708 MW of energy infrastructure.
Every stage of our energy facility is delivered by partners with modular equipment already in commercialized service, with years of operating history. That is what removes technology risk from the project.
EPC
Engineering, procurement and construction across all four stages of the facility design leverages modular standards, process feasibility, mass and energy balance, and operational flexibility to remove single-source dependence and single points of failure.
O&M
Dependable operations and asset management experience engaged during early-phase development, design, construction and commissioning, and continuing into training and operations to ensure delivery of outcomes, HSE and asset performance.
FS
Securing and characterizing flexible waste streams to ensure facility utilization, flexible operations and contingency supply provisions.
FSC
Selecting, sizing and conditioning desirable feedstocks to consistent specifications to maximize process outcomes.
CMF
Conversion and separation of clean fuels, thermal energy and industrial commodities into saleable fractions.
RPF
Combined-cycle power generation, balance of plant and grid interconnect increase renewable baseload capacity, while voltage regulation, frequency balance and black-start ancillary services increase overall grid stability and recovery capability.
Where we sit against the goals
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are the seventeen global objectives adopted by all 193 United Nations member states in 2015, broken into 169 specific targets to be met by 2030. They are the common framework governments, lenders and offtakers use to judge whether an infrastructure project delivers what it claims.
Circon has mapped its activities against all seventeen. The figures below say where our operations engage a goal — not that a goal has been achieved, and not measured against a sector average.
17 of 17
Circon's activities have been mapped against every one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The three categories below account for all seventeen between them.
9 of 17
Nine goals are engaged directly by what the energy facility does — waste diversion, baseload generation, material recovery and the carbon result.
5 of 17
Five more are engaged by how the business is run rather than by the process itself: local employment, procurement, community programs and governance.
3 of 17
Three are reached indirectly, through the effect of reliable power and diverted waste on the communities around a facility.
90 of 169
Ninety of the 169 underlying targets have been identified as relevant to Circon's operations. Seven are prioritized and measured.
Seven goals are engaged directly by the business model itself. Each is set against a named UN target, with the measure we report, the annual figure per facility, and the source it is verified against.
Select a figure for the detail behind it.
Circon's own assessment, mapping planned and current operations against the UN Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets. It records where Circon's activities engage a goal, not that a goal or target has been achieved. Not independently verified. Reviewed September 2026.
Why it scales
Every segment of the energy facility is a modular design, enabling repeatable and capital-efficient scaling. Scale here means the right number of modules of the same design. Each subsequent facility becomes an assembly exercise rather than a development one.
Global waste volumes are rising and grid reliability is falling simultaneously. That intersection of challenges is also an intersection of opportunity.
01
Commercially proven equipment from established suppliers, deployed modularly and reviewed by an independent engineer. Development-stage energy projects fail on unproven hardware more often than on anything else. The innovation here is in the business model, not the machinery.
02
Long-term contracted supply from multiple independent sources, with no single-supplier dependency. Development contracts multiples of the required volume, and diversity of feedstock, to de-risk operations.
03
A long-term power purchase agreement anchors a highly bankable finance structure. Diversified ancillary revenues from excess clean fuels, recovered commodities and environmental credits enhance financial flexibility and downside protection.
04
Each conversion module runs a dedicated feedstock class but is capable of processing alternate feeds, and power can be generated from fuel or from steam. Redundancy at both the input and conversion stages means the energy facility routes around a disruption rather than halting — and lets it optimize toward the highest-value co-product at any given time.
05
Every segment of the energy facility represents mature, commercially established technology without first-of-a-kind risk. Modular builds also increase budget certainty, compress schedule, reduce execution risk, reduce dependence on local work skills, and limit the impact of weather and site conditions.
06
Roughly 3 million mT CO₂e per year avoided and removed across the carbon lifecycle analysis in a typical 200 MW modular design build. Credits verified and registered against approved methodologies are tradeable digital credits — an environmental result that clears a diligence review, not just a social claim.
07
Independent power production is the fastest route for those seeking to increase grid reliability and reduce the cost of electricity. In Puerto Rico that required new law and the authorization of wheeling — the private generation and sale of power, using the grid to deliver it to the user for a toll charge. We engaged in 2018 to support the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau's work to authorize wheeling regulation. Circon is now certified by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau as an Independent Power Producer, Electricity Service Company and Retail Electricity Supplier — the status that paves the path for our project, and for other power developments, to deliver much-needed relief.
08
To repeat success you first have to commit to finishing and delivering. Our collective history of delivered infrastructure, development experience, finance creativity, and a team of world-class professional and technical partners with tier-one operations background proves an ability to finish and deliver. We cannot address every need in the global waste and power market, but we fought through the headwinds of COVID, global conflict, financial uncertainty, political turmoil and regulatory stress, and we are making an impact.
09
The reporting framework is aligned to the EU Green Bond Standard and the Equator Principles, with IFC Performance Standards behind the environmental, labor and safety metrics — the standards international lenders and development-finance institutions apply at diligence.
If you are a municipality with a landfill problem, a utility with a capacity problem, an industrial producer with a feedstock stream, or an investor in the energy transition — we should talk.
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