Turboden America to Deliver Waste Heat-to-Power Plants in Ohio, Indiana

Turboden America, a subsidiary of Turboden S.p.A. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, was selected by Tallgrass to supply three waste heat-to-power (WHP) organic Rankine cycle (ORC) plants at gas compressor stations in Columbus, OH, Chandlersville, OH, and St. Paul, IN. The WHP units will each supply approximately 10 MW of additional clean electricity for rural utilities—recycling turbine exhaust heat into baseload, grid-stabilizing power.

The projects will also be supported by Turboden’s cloud-based AI monitoring system, Turboanalytics, to provide anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and forecasting. These contracts qualify as waste energy recovery properties and are eligible for investment tax credit incentives of up to 50% under the Inflation Reduction Act, improving operational margins and long-term value.

“We are proud that Tallgrass has placed its trust in our ORC WHP technology,” said Paolo Bertuzzi, President of Turboden America and CEO of Turboden S.p.A. “We hope that the investment tax credit will remain in place for these projects, encouraging other oil and gas companies to follow Tallgrass’ example and helping this approach become a best practice for gas compressor stations. Improving energy efficiency and reducing CO₂ emissions in oil and gas processing and transportation are areas of interest for Turboden and the MHI Group. As power demand continues to rise across the United States, projects like these highlight the growing role of efficiency-driven, water-free baseload solutions in supporting energy security and long-term grid resilience.”

These projects follow an initial Turboden WHP system procured in 2024 for a facility in Fayette County, OH, bringing the total to four installations and 46.1 MW of clean and reliable baseload power. Tallgrass placed these orders as electricity demand rises across the United States, forcing sustained pressure on grid infrastructure and revealing capacity constraints in several regions.

Converting existing thermal energy into additional MWs without new fuel or water consumption may demonstrate how operators can unlock incremental capacity from installed infrastructure. In regions with increasingly constrained gas turbine supply, pipeline capacity, and grid interconnections, WHP offers a practical pathway to bolster grid reliability while minimizing carbon emissions.

Tallgrass operates interstate natural gas networks, with over 7,000 miles of FERC-regulated pipelines, including:

• Rockies Express Pipeline
• Ruby
• Trailblazer
• Tallgrass Interstate Gas Transmission
• Cheyenne Connector

Earlier this year, Tallgrass obtained approval for its development of the Crusoe AI data center—a 1.8 GW natural gas-driven data center campus with the ability to upscale to 10 GW, making it among the largest AI compute complexes ever announced. The company is responsible for energy and fuel supply, carbon sequestration, pipeline access, water infrastructure, and energy-to-grid distribution in this project.

Turboden’s renewed collaboration with Tallgrass highlights the company’s strategic value, supporting U.S. customers and accelerating growth in key sectors such as midstream oil and gas, power utilities, industrial manufacturing, and data centers. Turboden possesses over 40 years of experience creating bespoke utility-grade ORC solutions, with more than 470 installations across 50 countries.

Steam Heat Pump

In February 2026, Turboden successfully started the world’s largest steam-producing heat pump at delfort’s specialty paper mill. The system is now fully operational and overperforming with a coefficient of performance 10% higher than the expected value, marking a step forward in the decarbonization of energy-intensive industrial processes and industrial steam generation. The project features a large-scale heat pump with mechanical vapor recompression capable of generating 12 MWth of superheated steam at 3.4 bar, raising the temperature up to 150 – 180 °C.