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Utilities

Energy, Water and Waste Independence

Port Elysium is designed to make its own clean power, water and cooling, grow its own food and handle its own waste, with surplus power and water to sell beyond the estate. It also runs its own roads, fleet and fibre network, and watches every system from one control room. Each utility is built as the estate grows and run as a business in its own right.

Aerial view of a solar field
Self-supplied
Own power, water, cooling and waste, with surplus to sell
Module by module
Expanded as residential, commercial, construction and service demand develops
Shared trenches
Every pipe and cable laid with the roads
Up to 85%
Of equipment fundable by export credit
Why we run our own

A Blank Page, Designed Right

Today the site has very limited mains power and telecoms, and no mains water or sewage: it is tanks and tankers. Island electricity is costly and runs on imported fuel. So Port Elysium is its own utility supplier, and designs every network from the ground up with the best technology available now.

The utility businesses are Port Elysium operating companies (OpCos). Every home, hotel, berth and business is a metered customer, which makes the utilities a permanent income stream, not a cost of development.

The principles

Six Rules Behind Every System

  1. Owned, not outsourced. Each utility is a standalone business, paid by every connection it serves.
  2. Capital follows sales. Each module is ordered just in time for the homes it will serve.
  3. Bought direct, built by us. Equipment bought at programme volume, installed by our own team.
  4. Shared trenches. When a road is built, every pipe and cable goes into the trenches beside it, so the ground is opened once.
  5. Clean and storm-ready. Solar, seawater cooling, rainwater and circular waste, with critical services kept running through storms.
  6. Measured live. The Digital Twin watches every system, so performance is measured, not claimed.
Delivery

Specialist Engineering, Stage by Stage

Each utility is designed with specialist engineering firms, appointed stage by stage as the estate moves through feasibility, and built and run by Port Elysium's own year-round team.

The people behind Port Elysium are on the Team pages.

Go deeper
Every utility has its own pre-feasibility study: Supporting papers · Decks · Technology assessments

Browse the Utility Decks