You own a building. It was built in the 1990s for a different era. Four story commercial building, decent occupancy, running fine. Then one of your anchor tenants doubles their footprint. They need to move in a call center, add cold storage, upgrade their HVAC for the new space. Same building, more capacity needed. So you call the utility.
They do a study. It takes three months. When the results come back, they tell you the interconnection queue is six years deep. The upgrade itself will cost you somewhere between 250 and 500 thousand dollars, they need an easement for additional power lines to your property, and that's the optimistic version. In Europe, it's 10 to 15 years.
Meanwhile, your tenant says, "We have a timeline. We need to be operational in four months. If you can't support the power we need, we'll move to the other building across town that can."
This is the commercial and industrial power gap. And it's happening at scale.
EV charging creates a sudden power crisis
Add to that the EV charging situation. Five years ago, you had one or two parking spaces with Level 2 chargers for employee vehicles. A few kilowatts. No big deal. But now every building needs to offer charging to attract tenants and employees. A parking lot with 50 spaces means 50 to 100 kilowatts of new load. For a commercial building, that's a significant bump on the electrical panel.
And that's just the beginning. EV charging is accelerating. Tesla's supercharger standard is becoming industry standard. Apartment buildings need 7 to 10 kilowatts per space. Office parks need similar. That adds up fast. Suddenly you're looking at power demands that your current service can't support, and the utility's answer is always the same. It takes years.
Every building owner hits the same constraint
The commercial and industrial power market is 250 billion dollars. That's how much businesses spend on electricity every year. And across that entire market, thousands of building owners are sitting on the same problem. They can't expand. They can't add tenants. They can't install EV charging. Not because the technology doesn't exist. But because the wires going into the building can't carry the load.
You've got warehouse owners who want to add refrigeration for a new product line but the electrical panel is maxed out. Manufacturing facilities that want to expand their production floor but need more power than the building service can provide. Data centers that want to collocate tenants but don't have enough capacity. Hospitals that want to expand their surgical suite but their electrical infrastructure is at limit.
The common thread is always the same. The facility needs more power. The utility says 6 years or more for an upgrade. By then, the opportunity has passed. The new tenant went elsewhere. The market window closed. The competition moved to a different building that had capacity.
Diesel backup doesn't work for continuous load
The instinct is to install a backup generator. You already have one for emergencies. Why not use it for the extra load? The answer is cost and practicality. Diesel generators are designed for short-duration backup. They're not meant to run continuously. You're looking at fuel consumption that kills the economics. Oil changes every few hundred hours. Maintenance costs that stack up. Noise issues with continuous operation.
And if you're trying to attract quality tenants, especially in sustainable-focused industries, telling them their power comes from a diesel generator isn't going to work. They want clean energy. They want their operations aligned with their corporate commitments. A diesel backup contradicts that message.
The solution is distributed, clean, on-site power
What building owners and facility managers actually need is the ability to generate clean power on-site, work in parallel with the grid, and add capacity without waiting years for utility upgrades. That power needs to be relatively quiet. It needs to fit within the building footprint. It needs to be managed remotely so you can monitor it across your portfolio of properties. And it needs to work continuously, not just for emergencies.
The answer isn't a theoretical future technology. It's something that works today. Something you can deploy to solve the capacity constraint right now while the utility is running their interconnection study.
You don't need to wait for the grid. You need to build your own power infrastructure.
This is why we built Immedia Power
We started Immedia because building owners were telling us the same story over and over. They have the tenants. They have the expansion plans. They have the capital ready. But the electrical panel is the constraint. Not because upgrading the panel is expensive. But because upgrading the grid connection takes years. Years they don't have.
The GX230 is the solution. It's a 200 kilowatt multi-fuel generator that fits in 15 square feet. You could fit it in a parking lot, on a rooftop, next to the loading dock. It weighs 700 kilograms. It runs on natural gas, propane, hydrogen, or biogas. So it works with fuel infrastructure that probably already exists near your building.
Most importantly, it's grid-parallel. It works alongside the power you're already getting from the utility. So you're not replacing the grid. You're augmenting it. Adding capacity to support new tenants, EV charging, manufacturing expansion, whatever your building needs. And it deploys in days, not years.
One unit gives you 200 kilowatts right away. Multiple units scale your capacity to whatever you need. And because it's software-managed, you can monitor and optimize it remotely. If you're managing multiple buildings, you can see the entire network from one dashboard.
This is the missing piece that building owners and facility managers have been waiting for. It's clean. It's quiet at 69 decibels. It works at commercial properties, industrial sites, anywhere your power needs exceed what the grid can provide. And it gives you options while you're waiting on grid upgrades.
If you're managing a facility that's constrained by power capacity, reach out. We're working with building owners and operators across the country right now. This is exactly what we built this company to solve.