In addition to electrical power, TITAN produces at least 50,000 litres of second-generation ethanol (2G EtOH) per day, with 2–3 days of storage on-site. This ethanol is primarily intended as a feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) or as a standalone renewable fuel. However, in the event of grid stress or extreme weather conditions, TITAN sites can reconvert this ethanol into renewable CHP (Combined Heat and Power), providing flexible backup electricity at a moment’s notice.
This makes TITAN a fuel-secure baseload power source. Unlike batteries, ethanol storage is thermally stable, long-duration, and many times less expensive to install and maintain. TITAN ethanol storage tanks are manufactured in Poland, and designed for rural deployment at scale.
By introducing vibrating, rotating mechanical equipment—rather than relying solely on inverter-based devices—TITAN helps address one of the emerging risks in modern energy systems: inertia loss. Recent blackouts in countries such as Spain have highlighted the fragility of grids overloaded with DC-only technologies. TITAN’s rotating gas engines reintroduce inertia into the rural grid, reducing voltage collapse risks and enabling more solar PV to be deployed safely.
Community-Scale Renewables
This approach supports community-scale renewables. By anchoring rural grid nodes with stable, dispatchable generation, TITAN empowers local communities to earn revenue from solar energy, while protecting them from curtailment or systemic outages. It offers double materiality: economic participation and grid resilience, hand in hand.
Beyond these first ten units, TITAN is designed for scale. Alongside its urban counterpart ASMARA, the TITAN platform was developed as a cookie-cutter modular solution, enabling rapid deployment at national and European levels. Poland alone contains over 1,600 zoned infrastructure plots and legacy energy facilities that could host TITAN or ASMARA installations.
Hosting TITAN or ASMARA installations
Wherever forest waste or municipal solid waste (MSW) exists—across rural, peri-urban, and industrial landscapes—these platforms can deliver clean energy, resource recovery, and grid reliability. TITAN addresses rural challenges: waste utilisation, energy security, and local industry revitalisation. ASMARA tackles urban MSW, where over 90% of waste is technically recyclable.
ASMARA eliminates complex, expensive, and often ineffective waste sorting regimes. Instead, it introduces a simple two-sort system: wet and dry. This model reduces the burden on households, lowers municipal infrastructure costs, and improves recycling outcomes. It also creates a new feedstock stream for urban circularity—delivering renewable fuels, chemicals, materials, and nutrients.
Beyond current waste streams, SOLIDEA’s international partners are already working to recover historic landfill sites, turning contaminated zones into clean, reclaimable land. This process reduces leachate emissions into rivers and groundwater and returns degraded plots to productive use. The long-term environmental benefits are profound.
Scaling Up
Together, the first ten TITAN installations—and their future urban siblings in ASMARA—offer Poland a path to balanced, modular, and community-driven energy transition. They strengthen the grid, create jobs, valorise waste, and unlock the next generation of nature-like industrial outputs.
This is not just about decarbonisation. It’s about resilience, equity, and restoring value to the land, the grid, and the people.