Ciconia Energy converts high-temperature waste heat into low-carbon, behind-the-meter electricity using supercritical CO₂ power cycles. We generate green electricity from existing industrial infrastructure and increase performance for new build.
High-grade industrial waste heat is one of the largest untapped energy sources on the planet, while industrials are structurally exposed to volatile power prices and largely underserved by existing recovery technologies.
Energy now represents a significant share of total OPEX for heavy industry, with EU industrial power prices several times higher than just a few years ago.
Roughly half of the primary energy consumed by heavy industry is lost as waste heat, much of it above 350°C. Steel, cement, glass and incineration emit high-grade heat continuously, every single day.
ORC is capped at low temperatures with weak economics. Steam is bulky, water-intensive and not viable at smaller scale. Most brownfield sites remain unaddressed.
The sCO₂ Brayton cycle outperforms steam and Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) in efficiency, compacity, water use and CAPEX, exactly in the temperature range where industrial waste heat is most abundant: above 350°C.
Non-flammable, widely available and inexpensive. Compressible like a gas, with the density of a liquid near the critical point. Low Global Warming Potential. Zero toxicity.
More electricity from the same waste heat input, with a lower capital cost than steam at the same scale.
Container-skid format with a fraction of the footprint of steam. Designed to fit constrained brownfield sites.
Removes the cooling-water requirement, addressing one of the strictest emerging regulatory constraints in industry.
District heating output as a secondary revenue stream, with high cogeneration efficiency versus steam cycles.
For comparable power, an sCO₂ turbine takes a fraction of the volume of a steam turbine, which makes brownfield retrofit accessible.
sCO₂ has been studied for decades. What changed in the last five years is the convergence of technical maturity, supply chain readiness and commercial pull, all at once.
Ciconia Energy targets industrials with continuous, high-temperature waste heat, simple-cycle gas turbines that today vent their exhaust to the air, and AI data-center power architectures moving behind the meter.
Behind-the-meter gas turbines with sCO₂ bottoming cycles to increase on-site power and reduce fuel use.
Open-cycle gas turbines, a major retrofit opportunity.
Round-the-clock high-grade heat, ideal for replication.
Very high-temperature kiln flue gases, continuous load.
High capacity factors deliver a year-round heat source.
Furnace temperatures and stable load profiles are a natural fit.
Electric arc and blast furnaces, with significant heat reservoirs.
Process streams, refineries and adjacent industrial verticals.
Ciconia Energy designs, finances, builds, installs and operates the power block on your site. You provide access to your waste heat; you enjoy competitive electricity, behind the meter, below grid price, fixed for the long term.
A first-of-a-kind unit to demonstrate operating and commercial viability, then a scalable replication engine that brings CAPEX and engineering time down with every NOAK.
An on-site assessment. A tailored techno-economic simulation. A bankable proposal designed for your plant. Reach out to our team.