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ENERGIZING THE NEW AGE OF POWER GENERATION With innovation at the fore, VoltaGrid are accelerating decarbonization across North America through high-efficiency remote power solutions Writer: Phoebe Harper | Project Manager: David Knott

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isted amongst ‘The Top 16 Power Grid Start-ups to Follow in 2021’ just one year since the company’s inception in 2020, VoltaGrid’s reputation as an innovator in North America’s energy sector has been cemented early.

Founded by an experienced energy services team, led by current President and CEO Nathan Ough, VoltaGrid specializes in electric power solutions designed to reduce emissions whilst

increasing reliability for remote mining, pressure pumping, utility and distributed generation applications.

Offering significant advantages over conventional power sources available today, VoltaGrid leverages leading-edge technology to accelerate decarbonization within the power infrastructure. The company’s turnkey power package includes highefficiency gas engines, energy storage and grid power connectivity.

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VOLTAGRID INTELLIGENT ENERGY VoltaGrid endeavors to provide the cleanest, most intelligent and affordable power for both remote and grid connected applications.

The company’s innovative solutions are indicative of VoltaGrid’s focus on reducing customer emission profiles through a relentless focus on technological improvement.

VoltaGrid’s product range is

best embodied by the VoltaGrid trailer, mounted with up to a 2.9 megawatt (MW) discharge rate energy storage system (ESS) that offers critical microgrid stabilization.

Additional to this, the company’s dynamic-response generators offer flexible modular power solutions as a standalone power unit that works complimentarily with the proprietary trailer-mounted ESS. The ESS is also

ADVANTAGES OF THE VOLTAGRID PATENT-PENDING HYBRID POWER SOLUTION OVER CONVENTIONAL POWER SOURCES: REDUCE EMISSIONS - Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) criterion emissions by 28 – 40 percent versus dual-fuel and combustion turbines.

OPTIMIZE POWER CONSUMPTION - Utilize AI to monitor and optimize real-time power consumption, fuel costs, emissions, equipment condition, and more.

MANAGE ENERGY LOADS - Meet aggressive load changes, ensure redundancy, and optimize generator loads with our hybrid energy storage system.

NEUTRAL CARBON OFFSETS - Achieve carbon neutrality with VoltaGrid Net Zero carbon offsets.

TURNKEY SOLUTION - VoltaGrid’s turnkey solution provides ease of mind, encompassing power, fuel and associated logistics.

LOWER COSTS - Lower capital and fuel consumption costs with a single Power Purchase Agreement with VoltaGrid.

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With a rated power of 2.5 eMW, this clean fuel-burning gas genset is designed to minimize ESG footprint by lowering NOx and CO2e, decrease flared gas, and reduce fuel costs.

Applicable for land drilling, well service, and production power segments, the G3520 Non-Road Mobile Gas Genset (NRM) can be utilized as a single unit, paralleled or connected to a local grid. It can also be integrated on a road-legal trailer for mobile applications.

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MUSTANG CAT NATURAL GAS GENSET FOR ON-ROAD MOBILE APPLICATIONS G3520 Expanded Gas Offering • 2.5 MW High Performance Genset • EPA Nonroad Mobile Certified • Fuel Flexibility Down to 65 MN • Fast Load Acceptance Leverage EP Product • Strong Transient Capability • Quick to Market • Power Generation for any Segment • Foundation for Future Product The 3512E with DGB is the first and only DGB engine in the industry certified to U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final emission standards with automatic start-stop technology that cuts nonproductive idle time by 60% and fuel consumption by 8.5% while reducing GHG emissions.

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VOLTAGRID VALUES SAFETY – With a four-pillared safety program, VoltaGrid never compromise on safety, and endeavor to create the safest workplace possible by providing the best equipment, programs, training, and empowering the best people.

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION – VoltaGrid aim to delight every customer with an uncompromising commitment to delivering high-quality services.

At VoltaGrid, customer satisfaction also means developing an easy-tounderstand, transparent, and affordable pricing structure where you simply buy the power you need in MWh blocks.

INTEGRITY – VoltaGrid does business with integrity – meaning that all dealings undertaken with clients, suppliers, vendors, and their own team, are trustworthy, kind and honest. This means adhering to the company’s principles, mission and vision, whilst continually tracking ESG metrics.

INNOVATION – This is key to mandating VoltaGrid’s competitive advantage. Rather than viewing R&D as a cost center, VoltaGrid are driven to add value by researching, developing, acquiring, and implementing novel, lower cost and more efficient solutions, programs, technologies and processes.

SUSTAINABILITY – More than just a mantra, VoltaGrid factor sustainability into every decision that the company makes. This means applying strong principles of governance to ensure accountability, mitigate risk, and endorse ethical practices. This also means that VoltaGrid treat all employees equitably, ensuring everyone’s health and safety, and acting as a good corporate citizen by returning wealth to the communities where VoltaGrid work.

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instrumental in reducing emissions whilst optimizing the run-time of the generator. It is the combined functions of both generator and ESS that enable VoltaGrid to compete with grid power, in terms of environmental footprint.

VoltaGrid’s innovative product range also extends to ‘Smart Switchgear’, with mobile microgrids designed with reliability in mind. All of the above find application within remote power, grid paralleling, emissions monitoring, electric hydraulic fracturing, and industry solutions.

EMBRACING ESG As a socially conscious company, VoltaGrid prides itself on adhering to stringent criteria concerning Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). These intangible assets are embedded into the fabric of the company, with VoltaGrid’s ESG metrics continually monitored to ensure the company’s compliance.

This is reflective of VoltaGrid’s concern for the communities in which it operates, and continual aspiration to reduce the environmental impact of their equipment, tasks, and operations.

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“An industry-first, VoltaGrid’s ‘Access Innovation’ portal provides clients with real-time access to critical operational data, thereby allowing unprecedented insight into equipment condition, project costs, and other key details” In terms of the company’s achievements in environmental sustainability, VoltaGrid adhere to the four pillars proposed by the World Economic Forum, namely principles, people, planet, and prosperity. In full transparency, VotlaGrid publicly reports on its ESG performance annually, whist also encouraging business partners to do the same.

Commitment to ESG guides VoltaGrid when pursuing strategic business partnerships, favouring companies that mirror its own sense of social responsibility.

Through the company’s innovative technology, VoltaGrid enables its partners to remain focused on their core competencies while offering the solutions to enable them to improve their own ESG performance, whilst furthering VoltaGrid’s own decarbonization mandate across North America’s energy sector.

This is evidenced by the quarterly reviews that VoltaGrid undertakes, which are designed to empower clients and vendors by monitoring opportunity-specific risk factors.

These comprehensive reports streamline operations by integrating all manner of risks and opportunities, including economic, supply chain, environmental, social issues, climate

change and data security.

With recent investments into AI guiding VoltaGrid’s operations, the company’s virtual ecosystem platform best embodies the unlimited possibilities of technology to further development within the energy sector with a focus on reduced emissions and carbon intensity.

An industry-first, VoltaGrid’s ‘Access Innovation’ portal provides clients with real-time access to critical operational data, thereby allowing unprecedented insight into equipment condition, project

costs, and other key details, but most importantly, those all-important ESG metrics that embody the VoltaGrid mission – including live emissions tracking and ESG reporting within the convenience of a centralized database.

With such trailblazing initiatives and a long-term commitment to serving the energy, fuel and trucking industries with a carbon-footprint conscious approach, VoltaGrid’s growth across the North American industrial landscape is set to accelerate an energy revolution.

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