First the sky.
Then orbit.
Every power plant ever built has been tied to the ground beneath it. We think the next ones will be in the sky, and eventually in space, reaching whoever needs them, wherever they are.
Power that comes to you.
Today, getting electricity means bringing a site to the grid, or waiting years for the grid to come to it. Fuel can be trucked in, but it has to keep coming.
We want to flip that. Instead of building power where it’s convenient for the grid, we want to put generation wherever people need it, quickly, and move it when the need moves.
A ladder to orbit.
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Low Earth orbit
Power from space Long-term research
Solar arrays in orbit, above the atmosphere, sending energy down to wherever it’s needed. A constellation for electricity, the way satellite internet is for data: reachable from anywhere on the planet.
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High altitude
Solar balloons What we’re building now
Very large balloons covered in solar cells, tethered above a site, and flown above the clouds. They set up within a week and move on when the job is done.
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The ground
Where power lives today
Power plants, substations, and transmission lines: fixed in place, slow to build, and expensive to extend to anywhere new.
What it could unlock.
Relief in days
When a storm takes out the grid, power arrives with the first responders instead of months later.
Anywhere, not just near lines
Remote towns, research stations, and operations can get power without waiting for transmission to reach them.
Growth without the queue
New sites can start running while their permanent connection is built, instead of standing idle for years.
The athanor was the alchemist’s furnace, built to keep an even heat for as long as the work took, without anyone tending it. We borrowed the name for what we’re building: steady power that keeps itself going, fed by sunlight, wherever the work happens to be.
Building toward this with us?
We’d like to hear from partners, researchers, and early customers.
Talk to the foundersOr write to hello@tryathanor.com