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Blacktail Southwest · El Paso County, TX

Good Energy.
Ahead of Schedule.

The grid has a five-year queue. This site doesn't use it.

Where are you coming from?
For Data Center & Compute Operators

Your campus.
Your power.
No utility between you and uptime.

Every hyperscale operator in the Southwest is hitting the same wall: the grid can't commit capacity fast enough. This is a private generation site. Your load. Your contract. Your timeline.

  • ~1,220
    MW    ~1,220 MW at full buildout. Starts at 50 MW. You don't have to take the whole site.
  • 3 SRCNatural gas, solar + thermal storage, and geothermal — balanced by battery storage. 24/7 baseload, not weather-dependent.
  • 0
    queue    Private land. No interconnection queue. Under 10 MW ties directly to El Paso Electric. Larger loads bypass the utility backlog.
  • 15
    miles    Meta's hyperscale campus is 15 miles out. Fort Bliss is next door. The load is already there.
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For Capital & Investment

Private land.
Verified science.
One of a kind in the Borderplex.

4,480 acres of private land. Three energy sources. A geothermal gradient you don't find this close to existing transmission. It's not on a listing site because it's not that kind of deal.

  • 4,480
    acres    Contiguous private land — no BLM, no federal permitting delays, no surface-use conflicts.
  • 309°
    C/km    Geothermal gradient independently verified by New Mexico Tech, November 2024. Among the strongest identified in the region since UTEP's 1981 study.
  • PHASE50 MW pilot to ~1,220 MW nameplate. Built for phased capital — you pick where you come in.
  • 2027
    online    Pilot online 2027. Permits filed. Partners under contract. This isn't a concept deck.
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For Infrastructure Developers & Operators

Built to move.
The permits prove it.

No federal clock. Private land means no BLM, no state agencies in the way. Agreement to ground in weeks, not years.

  • 3–7
    days    Private-property drilling permits in Texas — not months on federal or state land.
  • 2×30″El Paso Natural Gas pipelines already cross the property. Interconnection is underway.
  • H₂OTwo water sources on-site — subsurface volume and recharge-rate studies underway with UT El Paso.
  • MOUSigned MOU with RayGen for initial solar + thermal storage deployment: 20–30 MW ORC, 40–50 MW PV Ultra.
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What Good Energy Means

Not a slogan.
A standard.

It's not a tagline. It's what we say no to.

  • Always on530 MW gas. 420 MW solar + thermal. 180 MW geothermal. 84 MW battery. Three sources, one grid-independent stack.
  • Built hereWest Texas land. West Texas labor. We're not here to pull out the resource and leave.
  • Ahead of itWe built on private land so we wouldn't be waiting in line. The grid constraint is real. This site isn't subject to it.
The Founders
Joe Navar
Joe Navar
Founder & CEO

Joe founded Blacktail in June 2022. He began as a wellhead R&D engineer at Cameron (Schlumberger), ran artificial lift sales at The Weir Group, and built Mesquite Technologies from seed through a successful exit to NOV in 2024. He holds an MBA from Rice University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UT Austin.

Timothy Phythian
Timothy Phythian
Co-Founder & COO

Tim co-founded Blacktail and runs operations, engineering, and project development. He's spent more than a decade building complex equipment and infrastructure across oil and gas, geothermal, and distributed power — from pressure control and wellhead systems to modular power generation. At Blacktail he leads the geothermal wellhead work, modular ORC power concepts, and project development.

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Good Energy. Ahead of Schedule.·Blacktail Southwest · El Paso County, TX·Energy Innovation Collaborators: UT Austin · UT El Paso · NM Tech · SLB · RayGen · NOV