About Breeze

Grid delays and high energy costs are slowing growth in emerging regions and on remote projects. Breeze’s answer is equipment that can be put to work now.

That is why a Breeze system starts with natural gas. Gas engines drive the compressors first, using equipment that is durable, available and already familiar to oil and gas operations. As solar or wind is added, renewable-powered motors replace the gas engines, and the pipeline and turbines stay as they are. Start with gas, transition to clean.

The mission behind both the technology and the advisory work is to accelerate the global transition to clean energy.

Breeze began with a conversation in New Mexico. Mike Orshan, in renewables since 2003, met the former head of technology at Sandia National Laboratories. The view he heard there was that solar and wind would not be deployed fast enough on their own to make a difference for climate change, and that compressed air was the science that would scale. Other companies stored compressed air in salt mines. During work in Alberta, Canada, someone in the room suggested putting the air into pipelines instead, so it could be moved as well as stored and then released to spin turbines and make electricity. That was the beginning of Breeze.

Breeze announced its compressed air pipeline systems (CAPS) from Albuquerque in June 2021, with a plan to turn idle oil and gas pipelines into routes for clean power. That year a compressed air proof of concept was running at an office complex in Alberta. In April 2022 the Long Duration Energy Storage Council named Breeze one of five new technology members, and in 2023 Albuquerque Business First listed Breeze among its New Mexico Startups to Watch. Breeze is now piloting a system in New Mexico that starts with natural gas.