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Up to 1 gigawatt is a development target, not a deployed plant; Noon's only disclosed hardware is a January demo claiming 200 hour discharge at maximum output.
A renewables platform and a U.S. multi-day battery startup have signed a collaboration agreement to develop up to 1 gigawatt of long-duration storage for U.S. AI infrastructure. The 1 gigawatt is a target ceiling across future projects, not a single commissioned plant, and the deals will be structured as power purchase agreements or capacity offtakes (Energy-Storage.news).
Noon Energy and Sabanci Renewables will develop the commercial, technical, and operational frameworks for projects pairing Noon's reversible electrofuels battery systems with Sabanci's renewables portfolio. "We will develop the commercial, technical, and operational frameworks to unlock a 100% reliable and renewable grid for cents per kWh using multi-day energy storage," said Chris Graves, Noon Energy's CEO. The partnership feeds Sabanci Renewables' stated goal of a 3 GW U.S. renewable portfolio within five years.
Noon holds a second gigawatt-scale reservation. According to trade-press reporting, the company announced in April a 1 GW / 100 GWh capacity deal with Meta, starting with a 25 MW / 2.5 GWh project targeted for 2028. Noon's technology is flow-battery-adjacent: electricity charges a solid-oxide fuel cell into a liquid carbon-based storage medium, then discharges by reacting that fuel with air-drawn oxygen. Power and energy are decoupled, so tank size sets duration.
What Noon has actually demonstrated is narrower. In January the company unveiled an operational demo and said the system can discharge for 200 hours at maximum output, with limited published specifications. The category signal: AI's power demand is pulling long-duration storage startups into gigawatt-scale MoU language before the technology is proven at scale.