Tivon™ Thermal Energy Storage System
Fuel-Independent Firm Power Infrastructure
Durable revenue stability. Long-duration asset.
Tivon: Fuel-Independent Firm Power Infrastructure
Utility-Scale 24-Hour Firm Capacity
Tivon’s Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system represents a distinct energy infrastructure asset class in which the energy inventory is effectively prepaid and embedded within the capital structure.
Tivon develops and deploys utility-scale thermal energy storage assets designed to deliver continuous, dispatchable power without combustion or fuel dependency.
At commercial scale, Tivon systems operate as central-station power assets, converting stored thermal energy into firm electrical output through a conventional steam-cycle architecture.
Unlike fuel-based generation, the system’s energy inventory is embedded within the capital structure, eliminating fuel procurement, fuel-price volatility, and combustion-driven overhaul cycles that are not fully eliminable through hedging.
Under long-term capacity or structured power contracts, revenue is driven primarily by availability performance and infrastructure capital recovery rather than commodity exposure.
Firm Capacity Through Renewable Ramp Events
Converting Renewable Volatility into Contractable Firm Power
In renewable-dominant grids, solar and wind output can swing sharply within minutes. Tivon converts that variability into steady, contractable firm capacity by decoupling variable charging input from delivered electrical output. The result is a stable power profile better aligned with grid reliability needs, long-term capacity procurement, and infrastructure-style capital recovery.
Tivon can help stabilize renewable ramp events by:
- maintaining firm output through sharp solar ramps
- absorbing excess renewable generation during ramp-up rather than curtailing it
- smoothing net load by pairing variable charging with steady delivered power
Tivon Transient Load Response
Transient Load Response
Tivon is designed to follow rapid load changes without destabilizing the thermal power block. Fast electrical controls at the facility bus manage short-duration transients while the TES and Rankine cycle respond on a seconds-to-minutes timescale through steam-side dispatch control. This control architecture enables the system to support dynamic enterprise loads while maintaining stable thermal operating conditions.
This control architecture enables Tivon to support the highly dynamic load profiles characteristic of hyperscale data centers while maintaining stable thermal operating conditions.
Dispatch Control and Load-Following Architecture
Tivon is architected as a dispatchable thermal-to-electric system designed to operate at stable baseload setpoints. Short-duration electrical variability is handled by fast control action and buffering at the facility bus, while the TES and Rankine block follow net load on a seconds-to-minutes timescale through steam-side dispatch control. This maintains reserve margin and prevents the steam cycle from chasing sub-second fluctuations.
Bidirectional Charging and Self-Recharge Capability
Tivon’s bidirectional charge/discharge capability allows the system to absorb load reductions by redirecting surplus electrical output into TES charging as the turbine-generator ramps down. This “self-recharge during load shed” behavior converts an electrical down-step into controlled thermal recharging on a seconds-to-minutes timescale, reducing reliance on immediate grid transfer or curtailment. Recoverable performance is project-specific and should be confirmed through dynamic studies and commissioning.
24-Hour Firm Capacity
Capital-Efficient Firm Power at Extended Duration
Tivon delivers 24-hour firm renewable capacity through thermal energy storage, providing a capital-efficient alternative to duration-linear battery systems.
Tivon is not competing in the 4-hour storage market. Tivon is engineered for 24-hour firm capacity, where battery economics can become structurally prohibitive and deployable thermal storage can become materially more capital-efficient on an energy-duration basis.
Tivon is not a battery.
Tivon is a fuel-independent baseload power architecture.
At 24 hours, the relevant question is no longer round-trip efficiency alone. It is the capital cost of delivering firm energy at duration. That is where thermal storage can become decisive.
Infrastructure Asset vs. Battery Asset
Tivon is structured as:
- A generation-style energy infrastructure asset with a 30-year design life and contracted-revenue orientation
- A firm capacity resource
- A dispatchable renewable and curtailed energy platform
It is not structured as:
- A short-duration arbitrage battery
- A merchant storage play
This distinction affects:
- Contract structures (long-term PPAs, capacity agreements, availability-based contracts)
- Underwriting profile (contracted revenue tied to availability and performance, not spread capture)
- Risk allocation (reduced merchant exposure; revenue anchored to contracted capacity rather than volatility)
- Investor base (infrastructure, project finance, and long-duration capital rather than short-cycle energy traders)
- Valuation methodology (DCF of contracted cash flows and infrastructure-style multiples vs. merchant storage or technology multiples)
Duration Changes Capital Structure
As duration increases, project economics become increasingly driven by how energy capacity scales relative to power. At 24 hours, the investment question shifts from short-duration arbitrage to firm-capacity infrastructure.
Bottom Line
Batteries are excellent at 4 hours. Tivon is engineered for 24.
- Different duration
- Different risk and revenue profile
- Different underwriting model
- Different category of infrastructure asset
Figure - Illustrative scaling behavior
Electrochemical storage typically scales energy capacity approximately linearly with duration, while thermal storage architectures can decouple power from energy—changing how long-duration firm capacity can be provisioned. This figure is conceptual and not a representation of specific project costs.
About Tivon Energy
Our Vision
Our Solution
Our Mission
To deliver dependable microgrids that promote environmental stewardship and community resilience, minimizing economic, social, and ecological impacts across supply chains.
Our Mission
Our Solution
Our Mission
To provide an innovative thermal energy storage platform that shields customers from fuel price volatility, logistics hurdles, and permitting risks—while boosting electricity security.
Our Solution
Our Solution
Our Solution
Tivon Energy's patented thermal storage microgrid delivers zero-emission, self-generated power from behind-the-meter sources, ensuring continuous operation without fuel dependencies.
The Challenge
Tivon’s Mission-Critical Goals
Tivon is engineered around three mission-critical outcomes:
- Fuel-independent baseload alternative: Designed to reduce exposure to fuel price volatility, fuel logistics, and combustion-related permitting risk. Tivon’s architecture enables firm power deployment in jurisdictions where new combustion assets face increasing constraints, including Clean Air Act nonattainment regions.
- Underwritable firm power for enterprises: Engineered to deliver compliant, baseload-style capacity that can be underwritten as durable infrastructure. Revenue is tied to measured availability and performance, rather than fuel inputs, fuel price exposure, or merchant-market volatility.
- Simplified, scalable, patent-protected architecture: Tivon’s patented system configuration re-designs thermal energy storage to mitigate known TES failure modes while avoiding CSP-style complexity. The result is a scalable platform capable of delivering long-duration, dispatchable renewable power with materially lower installed and operating cost.
Why Tivon Fits an Infrastructure Capital Stack
Legacy power requires underwriting fuel, permitting, and operating risk; Tivon is designed to eliminate those exposures through a fuel-independent, zero-emission architecture.
In Clean Air Act nonattainment regions, legacy power capacity can face tighter permitting constraints; Tivon’s zero-emission configuration is designed for improved siting optionality.
Tivon targets a 45% CAPEX and 75% parasitic load reductions versus conventional CSP-style systems. Tivon’s novel system configuration eliminates historical TES failure modes.
How The Tivon System Works
Tivon - Transforming Thermal Energy Storage
Collects renewable or grid electricity.
Converts it into high-temperature thermal energy inside the insulated containment vessel (ICV).
Stores heat in molten salt for long-duration retention.
Generates power via steam turbine using recovered heat.
Distribution: zero-carbon, dispatchable baseload power and optional process heat.
Electricity → Immersion Heaters → ICV (Molten Salt Storage) → Thermosyphon HX → Steam Turbine → Generator → Customer
Capital-Efficient Firm Capacity for Contracted Revenue Frameworks
· Fuel-independent, firm power
· Underwritable infrastructure profile
· Grid-optional microgrid operation
· Long-duration storage (not limited to 4 hours)
· Zero-emission power delivery
· Simplified system architecture vs CSP-style TES
· Peaker-displacement dispatch
Tivon's novel design
Tivon Microgrids: Bond-Like Stability in an Unstable Energy World
A Tivon™ microgrid is designed to function as a 30-year, bond-like infrastructure asset in a market otherwise exposed to fuel-price volatility and regulatory change. By removing those exposures, the platform shifts energy infrastructure away from variable-cost operations and toward a more stable, yield-generating contracted asset profile.
Tivon™ System's Various Deployment Configurations
Tivon™ - Transformative Microgrid Solution
The U.S. electric grid is under increasing strain from extreme weather, operational demands, cyber threats, and physical vulnerabilities—exposing mission-critical operations to significant risks.
Tivon® addresses these challenges with a utility-scale, long-duration thermal energy storage microgrid. It captures low-cost renewable electricity during surplus periods and delivers firm, reliable power on demand. Engineered for superior security and resilience, Tivon eliminates fuel supply chain dependencies and enables deployment in restrictive environments, such as Clean Air Act nonattainment areas.
Tivon™ Microgrid
Microgrids enhance power reliability by producing electricity near the point of use. Engineered for standalone (islanded) mode, they sustain essential loads amid utility grid disruptions, shielding against outages and instability. Tivon's innovative design takes this further, integrating long-duration thermal storage for fuel-independent, zero-emission resilience.
The Electric Grid of the Future
Grid Modernization
The modernization of the electric grid demands innovative solutions. Centralized electricity supply is no longer the sole reality. Transmission congestion and interconnection delays are increasingly material constraints.
Microgrid Solution to Centralized Utility Grid
Microgrids can provide transmission constraint relief by serving load locally and reducing reliance on congested transmission corridors during peak conditions. By supplying a portion of demand behind-the-meter, microgrids can also support interconnection relief, lowering incremental import requirements, easing queue pressure, and reducing exposure to transmission upgrades and curtailment risk.
ROI and Savings with Tivon Microgrids
Microgrids enhance reliability while delivering significant long-term savings compared to traditional utility power, mainly through reduced peak-demand charges and avoidance of premium pricing periods. Tivon advances this model by enabling fuel-independent dispatch from stored renewable energy, shielding against natural gas price fluctuations and providing consistent power under defined scenarios.
Customers can shift from volatile, fuel- and market-exposed utility energy costs to a more predictable cost structure dominated by fixed capital recovery, contracted operations & maintenance (O&M), and financing—whether via asset ownership and/or long-term service arrangements. On an illustrative benchmark basis versus a similarly sized natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) plant, a 350 MW net / 8,400 MWh Tivon configuration could avoid >$5 billion of NGCC fuel expense over 30 years, depending on site-specific dispatch, capacity factor, and the natural gas price path.
Illustrative NGCC fuel estimate assumes ~350 MW net, ~90% capacity factor, and ~6.5–7.0 MMBtu/MWh heat rate; fuel cost excludes start costs, variable O&M, and escalation.
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