Burke Energy Campus —
Twelve-Zone Detail Plans

Scaled up to serve a 2 GW campus: a submerged intake crib 300–600 m offshore draws below the thermocline, with fish-exclusion screens at <0.15 m/s protecting aquatic life. Raw water splits three ways downstream of the shoreline pump station — electrolyzer feed, data-center cooling makeup, and HRSG boiler feedwater — each polished to its own spec on a shared softening → RO → DI treatment train. Discharge reoxygenation returns all process water to full ecological health before it re-enters Lake Erie.

Expanded to roughly 750 MW of proton-exchange-membrane electrolysis — about 11 t H₂/hr, 270 t/day — housed across three long, low pile-supported stack halls spread along the widened west fill cell now available under the full-peninsula footprint. Green hydrogen feeds the 7HA.03 power island's co-fire skid, the Haber-Bosch loop, industrial H₂ sales, and marine bunkering. O₂ byproduct is sold to Cleveland Clinic.

FastOx shaft gasification converts Cleveland MSW at >2,200°C using oxygen and steam injection — no preprocessing required. Waste descends through drying, pyrolysis, gasification, and partial-oxidation zones, producing clean syngas (H₂ + CO) and inert vitrified slag for road aggregate. Syngas feeds the Haber-Bosch loop after water-gas shift and CO₂ removal. The larger peninsula footprint allows a second gasifier train to be pre-graded for future capacity.

The campus's primary generation: 5–7 GE Vernova 7HA.03 combined-cycle blocks (430 MW ISO simple-cycle each), staged across the widened mid-peninsula power yard to deliver approximately 2 GW net. Each gas turbine's ≈630°C exhaust is captured by a dedicated heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG); steam from a common header drives bottoming steam turbines for extra output and bleeds process steam for campus hot water and district heating. All units are hydrogen co-fire capable, and a reserved, pre-graded interior parcel keeps the small-modular-reactor upgrade path open. Mainspring + Hyliion KARNO fuel-flexible gensets plus BESS provide N+1 backup and full island capability.

An expanded ~2,200 t/day green ammonia plant combines electrolytic H₂ with nitrogen from an on-site Air Separation Unit. The synthesis loop runs 150–300 bar, 400–500°C over an iron catalyst; unreacted gas recycles. Ammonia serves fertilizer, marine-bunkering hydrogen-carrier, and pipeline-export markets simultaneously. The FastOx syngas-to-ammonia integration keeps Cleveland's MSW-to-fertilizer loop closed.

A new, larger point of common coupling (PCC) on the Shoreway corridor ties the 2 GW campus into Cleveland Public Power and FirstEnergy, sized well above the original 500 MW design. IEEE 1547-2018 islanding protection lets the campus disconnect and continue serving all internal loads autonomously during utility outages. The LEEDCo Icebreaker Wind submarine cable also lands and terminates here.

Onshore landing for the LEEDCo Icebreaker Wind submarine cable — six turbines generating up to 126 MW roughly 13 km offshore. The now-larger electrolyzer farm (Zone 2) directly absorbs curtailed offshore generation that would otherwise be wasted, converting storage-less wind into storable hydrogen during high-wind, low-demand periods.

Built along the full peninsula's north bulkhead on Lake Erie, coordinated with the US Army Corps and Port of Cleveland. An expanded hydrogen and liquid-ammonia bunkering facility makes Cleveland the first Great Lakes port to offer green hydrogen marine fuel at scale, serving bulk carriers, container vessels, and passenger ferries as the IMO's 2050 decarbonization targets drive fleet conversion.

Expanded high-pressure H₂ tube storage at 350 bar plus cryogenic liquid-ammonia tanks, sized for 72-hour buffer capacity at the full 2 GW production rate. Functions as a grid-scale virtual battery — surplus production fills storage during low-demand periods, and stored H₂ raises the 7HA.03 fleet's hydrogen co-fire fraction during peaks, qualifying for PJM ancillary-services payments.

The anchor tenant and economic engine, now phased 500 → 1,200 → 2,000 MW IT load across the widened east point of the peninsula. Powered directly by the on-site 7HA.03 power island, it needs no scarce grid capacity. Lake Erie deep-water cooling holds sub-1.1 PUE: raw intake → traveling screens → RO filtration → heat-exchanger battery → CRAH + direct-liquid-cooling manifolds → warm return → reoxygenation cascade → UV → submerged diffuser. DLC for AI GPU clusters at up to 130 kW/rack.

The public amenities zone faces Lake Erie along the now much longer northern edge of the full-peninsula campus. An Energy Discovery Centre lets visitors walk a glass-floored deck above the electrolyzer farm, watching hydrogen being produced from Lake Erie water — a natural Great Lakes Science Center partnership. Solar canopies cover parking and gathering areas; buildings draw on Zone 4's CHP district heat. The extended shoreline opens far more public lakefront than the original NE-corner-only design.

Case Western Reserve University co-operates a Clean Energy Research Institute with Cleveland Clinic; CWRU's Great Lakes Energy Institute gets a full-scale operating PEM electrolyzer farm as a live testbed — something no university lab can replicate. Cleveland State's Midwest Hydrogen Center of Excellence also anchors here. The larger peninsula gives the research campus direct sightlines to both Zone 2 (electrolyzer) and Zone 4 (power island) for real-time data collection.