Design Philosophy for 20 MW Trigeneration fecility for Data Centres

Design Philosophy The 20 MW CRT Trigeneration demonstration will be designed around a simple systems-engineering principle: Every molecule has a destination. Every MW must produce useful work. The objective is therefore not merely to generate 20 MW of electricity. It is to maximise the useful output obtained from the primary energy entering the complete system. For an AI data-centre application, the energy pathway should be considered as an integrated chain: Primary Energy → Firm Power → Compute → Cooling → Workload → Useful AI Output This leads to an overarching performance metric: Useful AI Output per MW of Primary Energy Traditional generating efficiency measures the conversion of fuel or primary energy into electricity. Data-centre PUE measures the relationship between facility electricity consumption and IT electricity consumption. Neither metric alone describes the performance of the complete energy-to-compute system. CRT Trigeneration therefore proposes a broader systems approach in which electrical generation, carbon recycling, hydrogen, heat recovery, cooling and high-density AI computing are considered as one integrated energy architecture. Three nested performance levels can be measured: 1. CRT System Efficiency How effectively primary energy is converted into firm electricity and useful recoverable thermal energy. 2. Data-Centre Energy Efficiency How much delivered electrical energy reaches the computing equipment rather than auxiliary infrastructure. 3. Compute Productivity How much useful AI workload is completed for each MW of primary energy entering the overall system. The ultimate objective is not simply the lowest-carbon electron or the most efficient GPU considered independently. It is to maximise useful computational work from constrained primary energy while maintaining firm, continuous operation. This provides the engineering basis for the 20 MW CRT Trigeneration demonstration and a framework that can subsequently be scaled modularly to larger AI and industrial energy infrastructure.

20 MW CRT Trigeneration Latrobe Valley Data Centre Demonstration | Victoria, Australia

CLEAN ENERGY AND WATER TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD 20 MW CRT Trigeneration Latrobe Valley Data Centre Demonstration | Victoria, Australia PUBLIC PROJECT OVERVIEW | V1.0 | OCTOBER 2026 A proposed 20 MW continuous energy platform integrating firm on-site electricity, useful heat, cooling and carbon recycling for data-centre infrastructure. The infrastructure challenge AI and high-density digital infrastructure require continuous electrical power, increasing cooling capacity and rapid deployment. Where grid connection, network augmentation or firm capacity cannot be delivered on the required schedule, the energy system can become a critical path for the data-centre project. CEWT's proposed response CEWT is developing the 20 MW CRT Trigeneration platform as an integrated energy system designed together with the data-centre load. The project combines firm primary generation, ride-through support, recovery of useful thermal energy, cooling integration and carbon recycling within one engineered system. Current public design basis Parameter Current screening basis Net continuous electrical output 20.0 MWe Installed generation 22.5 MWe (5 x 4.5 MWe screening configuration) Annual operating basis 8,500 h/y Annual firm electricity 170,000 MWh/y Recoverable thermal efficiency 44.8% screening basis Total CHP efficiency 91.0% screening basis Status note: These figures are screening/design-basis values and remain subject to FEED and vendor validation. How the architecture works Primary Energy → Firm Power → Compute → Cooling → Useful Output Carbon Recycling Technology (CRT) treats carbon as a recyclable molecular carrier and renewable hydrogen as the replacement chemical-energy input. Within the energy island, combustion, heat recovery, cooling, CO₂ recovery and fuel regeneration are integrated through mass balance, energy balance and heat integration. Detailed proprietary reaction ratios and process conditions are not included in this public overview.   Designed as an integrated infrastructure platform Firm primary power — Primary generation is sized for continuous duty rather than relying on batteries for bulk energy. Ride-through and power quality — DRUPS/battery systems are reserved for millisecond-to-second ride-through, power quality and transition support. Useful heat and cooling — Recoverable generation heat is directed toward cooling and other useful thermal duties. Carbon recycling — CO₂ is intended to be captured and recycled within CRT rather than treating atmospheric release as the normal endpoint of combustion. Grid optionality — A grid connection may be retained where commercially useful, while the primary duty is designed to be sustainable without continuous grid supply. Resource accountability CEWT is developing the project under a common Resource Accountability Framework. The objective is to account for carbon, energy, water and materials/nature as interconnected engineering ledgers, and relate them to useful output. CARBON ENERGY WATER MATERIALS & NATURE Carbon circulation, capture, recycle and losses Electrical, thermal and chemical energy accounted together Withdrawal, process use, recovery, recycle and net demand Material lifecycle, land and natural-resource dependencies Every molecule has a destination. Every unit of energy has a purpose. Every litre of water has an account. Every material has a lifecycle. MEASURE → BALANCE → RECYCLE → RECOVER → MINIMISE → VERIFY What the demonstration is intended to establish • Vendor-validated performance for the 20 MW continuous-duty energy platform. • An integrated mass and energy balance covering firm power, hydrogen duty, carbon recycling and heat/cooling integration. • A practical data-centre interface for primary power, ride-through, redundancy and cooling. • Vendor-supported CAPEX/OPEX, construction schedule and commissioning basis. • A measurable carbon, energy, water and materials/nature accounting structure for project verification. Development pathway 1 Technical validation 2 Commercial validation 3 Cost validation 4 Financing validation 5 FID The immediate priority is to validate the present design basis, secure the firm-power/cooling customer structure, reduce hydrogen-demand uncertainty, and replace screening cost estimates with vendor-supported FEED costs. CEWT is developing the 20 MW CRT Trigeneration Platform to address a data centre's energy constraint as an integrated infrastructure challenge - combining firm power, cooling, useful heat and carbon management within one engineered system. Clean Energy and Water Technologies Pty Ltd (CEWT) Public Project Overview | V1.0 | October 2026 Development-stage information only. Performance, project cost, schedule, commercial arrangements and financing remain subject to FEED, vendor confirmation, customer agreements and investment approvals.

RESOURCE ACCOUNTABILITY — OUR CONTRIBUTION TO NATURE AND HUMANITY

RESOURCE ACCOUNTABILITY — OUR CONTRIBUTION TO NATURE AND HUMANITY For many years, sustainability has largely been measured through one lens: carbon emissions. Carbon matters enormously. But nature is much larger than carbon. Every industrial system draws upon resources — energy, water, materials, land and natural systems. The question is not simply what we consume, but whether we understand where those resources come from, how efficiently we use them, what we recover, what we recycle, and what we ultimately return to nature. At Clean Energy and Water Technologies (CEWT), this thinking has led us towards a Resource Accountability Framework. Our principle is simple: Every molecule has a destination. Every unit of energy has a purpose. Every litre of water has an account. Every material has a lifecycle. We therefore look at our technologies through four interconnected ledgers: Carbon → Energy → Water → Materials & Nature The objective is not merely to reduce an emission at the end of a process. It is to design the process itself so that resources are measured, balanced, recovered and recycled wherever practicable. This thinking applies across our work in Carbon Recycling Technology, Green Iron, firm power for data centres and Direct Air Capture. Nature operates through cycles. Perhaps industry must learn to do the same. Resource accountability is therefore more than an engineering methodology for CEWT. We see it as our direct contribution to protecting nature while meeting the energy, materials, water and digital infrastructure needs of humanity. Measure → Balance → Recycle → Recover → Minimise → Verify That is the direction in which we intend to build.

CEWT Resources Accountability Framework Every molecule has a destination. Every unit of energy has a purpose. Every litre of water has an account. Every material has a lifecycle.

CRT — A Platform for Industrial Defossilisation CEWT’s Carbon Recycling Technology (CRT) is conceived as a single integrated platform for the defossilisation of carbon-intensive industries and critical infrastructure. Rather than addressing carbon emissions, renewable energy, hydrogen, industrial heat, water, cooling and carbon capture as separate problems, CRT brings these functions together within one systems architecture. Its central principle is: Do not treat carbon as a disposable fuel. Treat carbon as a recyclable industrial resource. Conventional industry largely follows a linear pathway: Extract fossil carbon → convert it to energy and products → emit CO₂ → extract more fossil carbon. CRT seeks to transform this into a circular pathway: Carbon → useful function → CO₂ capture → carbon conversion → regenerated carbon-bearing molecule → reuse. Renewable electricity and renewable hydrogen provide the continuing energy input. Carbon increasingly becomes a recyclable carrier and industrial process material rather than a consumable fossil energy source. One Platform — Multiple Industrial Applications The CRT platform can be configured around the requirements of different industries while retaining the same underlying principles of carbon recycling, renewable-energy integration, heat recovery, water recovery and systems optimisation. Firm and Baseload Power CRT can convert renewable energy into continuously available power by integrating hydrogen production, carbon recycling, methane or syngas chemistry, power generation and CO₂ capture. The objective is to provide firm energy without requiring the continuous consumption of fresh fossil carbon. Green Iron and Steel CRT can integrate hydrogen-rich syngas with direct reduction, recycle process gases, recover CO₂ for methanation and provide controlled carbon chemistry for DRI carburisation and downstream processing. The objective is not simply lower-carbon steelmaking, but progressive defossilisation of the ironmaking energy and carbon system. Grid-Independent Data-Centre Infrastructure CRT creates the possibility of developing grid-independent data-centre infrastructure under one integrated energy and utility architecture. Instead of treating the data centre, electricity supply, cooling plant, water system and carbon-management facilities as separate infrastructure projects, CRT can bring them together: Renewable Energy → H₂ → CRT Firm Power → Data Centre with integrated: Power + Cooling + Heat Recovery + Water Recovery + Carbon Recycling + Backup/Resilience This changes the conventional data-centre proposition. The site is no longer entirely dependent upon waiting for sufficient grid connection capacity before computing infrastructure can be deployed. CRT can provide an integrated pathway toward behind-the-meter, continuously available energy infrastructure designed around the data centre itself. Waste and recovered thermal energy can support cooling and other thermal services. Water can be recovered and recycled. Captured carbon becomes an input to the recycling loop rather than simply an emission stream. The result is a concept for: Grid-Independent Data Centre Infrastructure Under One Roof where the energy plant and digital infrastructure are engineered as one integrated system rather than two separate projects. High-Temperature and Advanced Manufacturing The same platform philosophy can extend into industries requiring high-temperature energy, reducing gases and carbon-containing process materials, including emerging applications such as silicon production. Defossilisation as the Umbrella CRT places defossilisation above individual technology labels. Under this umbrella sit: Climate Change Mitigation • Decarbonisation • Circular Economy • Renewable Energy • Green Hydrogen • Carbon Capture and Utilisation • Firm Power • Industrial Heat • Green Manufacturing • Water Circularity • Energy Security • Grid Independence • Sustainable Infrastructure These are not separate objectives within CRT. They are outcomes produced by integrating energy and material flows. The CRT Platform Philosophy Yesterday: Extract carbon → use once → emit. Today: Capture carbon → store it. CRT: Capture carbon → recycle it → use it again, while renewable energy supplies the continuing energy requirement. The ambition is an industrial architecture in which: Every molecule has a destination. Every recoverable energy stream has a purpose. Every resource is considered for reuse. Fresh fossil-carbon consumption is progressively displaced. This is the CEWT vision: CRT — One Platform for Industrial Defossilisation From Power to Green Iron. From Data Centres to Advanced Manufacturing. One integrated carbon-recycling architecture.