Project: West of the Pecos
West of the Pecos
West of the Pecos is Sunshine DevCo’s project in Culberson County, West Texas: solar, storage, and next-generation solid oxide fuel cells powering modular compute with closed loop immersive cooling, backed by American manufacturing, delivering clean capacity that scales to demand. It all runs behind the meter: power is generated on site and used on site, with no utility interconnection queue in between.
First power online expected Q4 2028
Power
We generate our own power. Compute never pulls from the grid: every watt the campus uses is made on site, behind the meter. And the site gives back: surplus generation flows to the grid, helping keep it balanced and reliable for everyone around us.
Behind the meter
Generation and load share one fence, with no interconnection queue between them. Capacity grows in modular blocks as demand commits, never ahead of it.
Firm generation
Dispatchable natural gas and solid oxide fuel cells deliver around-the-clock power, fueled by pipelines already crossing the land. No drilling required, and a minimal surface footprint. Fuel cells run at roughly 99% lower NOx than gas turbines.
Solar & storage
Some of the strongest solar resource in Texas, paired with battery storage that firms the sun and trims the gas burn.
Low water by design
Closed loop immersive cooling is low-water by design. Solid oxide fuel cells actually create water as they generate, and that water is recovered and reused on site. No public drinking water is used in operations, and there is zero impact on residential rates or public water utilities.
Modular compute · closed loop immersive cooling · schematic
- 1Servers run fully submerged in sealed tanks of nonconductive dielectric fluid. Heat leaves the chips on contact, cutting cooling energy by up to 95% versus air cooling.
- 2A pump skid circulates the warmed fluid out of the tanks and around the loop.
- 3Dry coolers hand the heat to the desert air with fans, the way a radiator cools an engine. Nothing evaporates, so nothing is consumed.
- 4The cooled fluid returns to the tanks and goes around again. The loop is sealed and filled once.
Why so little water: conventional cooling towers spend water to shed heat through evaporation. This loop sheds heat to air instead, so there is nothing to evaporate and nothing drawn from public systems. What little make-up the site needs is covered on site, including the water the fuel cells create as they run.
No public water in operations
Manufacturing
Built in America.
We build what we deploy. Factory-built power and compute, manufactured in North America, with on-site manufacturing as a potential component of the campus as it scales.
Solar
American solar cell and module manufacturing in partnership with our sister company Suniva: a domestic supply chain from cells to modules, built alongside the projects it feeds.
Firm power
Containerized solid oxide fuel cell generation units. Dispatchable, factory-built, with final manufacturing in the American Southwest.
Modular compute
Factory-built modules arrive complete with power, cooling, and IT, delivered and commissioned in months, not years. Proven at scale in live builds.
The site
West of the Pecos is West Texas land with gas in the fence, water underfoot, fiber on the horizon, and sun overhead. Everything an energy hub needs, assembled on one site.
Community
Built with the community. Power and jobs delivered in partnership with the people who live here, without straining the local grid, water utilities, or taxpayers.
What Sunshine DevCo will do
- Create lasting construction and permanent operations jobs at competitive wages for the local community.
- Prioritize training, upskilling, and hiring of residents.
- Support schools, infrastructure, and local services.
- Deploy solid oxide fuel cells delivering approximately 99% lower NOx emissions than gas turbines.
- Use immersive cooling designed for regional water constraints.
- Bear all energy costs of the campus, with no impact on residents' rates or grid stability.
- Invest in local water-system upgrades, workforce programs, and community institutions where we build.
What Sunshine DevCo will not do
- Raise electricity bills for residents or businesses in the host market.
- Use public drinking water systems for cooling or power generation.
- Deploy water-intensive evaporative cooling.
- Require ongoing water draw for cooling or generation during normal operations.
- Reduce grid reliability or available capacity for residential and small-business load.
- Request community, county, or state funding for site development.
- Expose local taxpayers to financial risk on the project.
- Operate without local hiring, workforce, and stewardship commitments in place.
The name
The name honors Judge Roy Bean, the self-styled Law West of the Pecos, whose outlawed 1896 title fight on a Rio Grande sandbar lasted 95 seconds. Speed is the point: capacity delivered 2x faster than grid-reliant campuses.
All figures, capacities, partnerships, timelines, and commitments referenced on this site describe in-development plans and principles. Specific project terms are governed by project-specific agreements with the relevant counties, communities, regulators, and partners. Nothing on this site constitutes a binding offer, contract, or guarantee. While we strive to keep all information accurate and current, the site may contain inadvertent errors or outdated references, and Sunshine DevCo reserves the right to correct or update any information at any time without notice.