For data centers
On‑site biomass power and cooling for data centers
Analema is designing on-site wood-gasification power and absorption cooling for data centers, in 1 MW blocks behind the meter.
Biomass starts in the forest.
PROGRAM IN DESIGN · REFERENCE MODEL · DESIGN FIGURES
The number
Modelled effective cost: about ¥16–18 per kWh over twenty years, after cooling revenue.
Our model puts on-site generation at ¥21.6–23.6/kWh including capital, fuel, operations and taxes. Selling the data center cooling made from the waste heat brings the effective cost to about ¥16.4–18.4. The same model projects a grid average of ¥28.7 over those twenty years.
Modelled effective cost is roughly 40% below the projected 20-year grid average.
Grid 20-year average ¥28.7/kWh: Analema financial model, built from METI and eic-jp tariff data, the FY2026 renewable surcharge and the GX carbon-levy schedule.
Speed
Grid connection takes years. On-site power can be faster.
A government working group on data-center power reports that some grid connections take ten years or more. Our design schedule for one on-site block is nine months from notice to proceed.
The machine
Ten containerized units per megawatt
A 1 MW block is ten containerized wood-gasification units, designed N+1 so no single unit is critical. About one and a half megawatts of heat drive absorption chillers for the data hall and dries the fuel. The grid connection stays as backup.
LiPRO Mobile Cube units in a multi-container block. Manufacturer render; four units shown, a 1 MW block uses ten. · LiPRO OEM specification. The ten-unit block uses LiPRO's 100 kWe-class unit, confirmed by the manufacturer for this program: ten units × 100 kWe ≈ one megawatt.
Fuel
Fuel from logs and mill offcuts, dried on site
The model buys logs at market price and mill offcuts at residue price, then chips and dries them on site with the plant's own heat. That gives a modelled fuel cost of ¥3.7 per kWh. Power used on site is not sold under FIT, so FIT fuel-certification rules do not limit which clean wood can be bought.
Community
What the host town gets
Each block needs forestry, chipping and operating staff in the host area and a steady buyer for thinned wood. That gives a rural municipality a concrete reason to support the project.
The close
The model is available under NDA
Every number on this page comes from a government dataset, a manufacturer quote or an input in our financial model. The full model, with its 32 assumptions listed, is shared under NDA.
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