EVIDENCE / MODEL
The model behind the proposition
CEAC is being developed from an explicit engineering and economic model so assumptions can be inspected, changed and progressively replaced with measured evidence.
CURRENT MODEL
CEAC Model v0.4
BASIS
100 households
COMPUTE
4 × NVIDIA A10
ENERGY
CEAC-BIO / BIOGAS_FIRST model
CARBON
IN DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMICS
CURRENT PLANNING MODEL
PHYSICAL
GENERATION-1 ENGINEERING MODEL
Current energy numbers
Generation-1 model figures for the current energy configuration.
- Annual CEAC consumption
- 15,586.9308 kWh/year
- Average facility load
- 1.77933 kW
- powerQUBE generation
- 27,594 kWh/year
- Solar generation planning value
- 4,275 kWh/year
- Combined gross generation
- 31,869 kWh/year
- Arithmetic annual balance
- +16,282.0692 kWh/year
- Nominal battery
- 30.72 kWh
- Usable AC battery
- 26.112 kWh
- Runtime at model average load
- 14.675 hours
- Planning CapEx / proposed membership
- £179,213.77 · £17.50/home/month
Annual energy balance describes total generation and consumption over a year. Battery state, generation timing, peak demand and grid interaction determine how the system operates hour by hour.
Carbon model
CEAC carbon modelling covers operational energy, embodied infrastructure, cooling, connectivity, storage and site-specific generation.
IN DEVELOPMENT
See the carbon overview for service-level measurement units.
From model to evidence
01
Generation-1 baseline
Establish the physical, electrical, network and economic baseline for Generation-1.
02
4-A10 performance
Measure throughput, latency, power, utilisation and thermal behaviour on the baseline compute.
03
100-home network
Characterise peak demand, service quality, backhaul and failover for a community-scale node.
04
Supplier and deployment economics
Bring CapEx, OpEx, connectivity and lifecycle reserves onto supplier and deployment data.
05
Federation
Develop multi-node placement across locality, capacity, network efficiency and resilience.
06
Energy profiles
Develop CEAC-GRID, CEAC-PV/ESS, CEAC-BIO and CEAC-FLEX as site-selectable energy architectures.
07
Carbon model
Complete embodied, operational and comparative service-level carbon accounting.
08
100-household pilot
Operate a community-scale node with measured availability, cost, utilisation, energy and user value.
09
UK distributed capacity
Map addressable grid, network, site and local-energy opportunities across the UK.
The proposition gets stronger when assumptions are replaced with measurements.
Scale through distribution
| Deployment | Households | A10 GPUs | Average modelled facility load |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 CEACs | 10,000 | 400 | 0.1779 MW |
| 1,000 CEACs | 100,000 | 4,000 | 1.7793 MW |
| 10,000 CEACs | 1,000,000 | 40,000 | 17.7933 MW |
CEAC scales differently from a hyperscale campus. Its value lies in distributing compute across many locations, bringing capacity closer to demand and opening access to smaller infrastructure opportunities.
Future CEAC generations can also support larger protected compute envelopes as accelerator density and site requirements evolve.
FUTURE DESIGN STUDIESProtected compute classes of approximately 5, 10, 25 and 50 kW
Editable engineering binders
CURRENT MODELExplore community, compute, bioQUBE/powerQUBE, feedstock, battery, solar, capital, operating costs, lifecycle, carbon and live results for the Generation-1 model.
Model provenance
Baseline hash 823d96dd800afa55… · ceac-model-v0.4.yaml
Community
Compute
bioQUBE / powerQUBE
Containerised bioQUBE produces biogas; powerQUBE converts biogas to electricity and recovered heat. The system includes gas handling, with final packaging and storage selected for the deployment site.
Feedstock
Battery + Solar
Connectivity
Connectivity operating costs are included in the cash OpEx model.
Capital Costs
| Item | £ value |
|---|---|
| CEAC core | |
| Connectivity | |
| bioQUBE + powerQUBE system | |
| Contingency % | |
| Grant / external capital |
Operating Costs
| Item | Group | £ / year |
|---|---|---|
| Grid standing charge (retained) | ceac | |
| Field maintenance + software/security retainer | ceac | |
| Insurance | ceac | |
| Fire-system annual service | ceac | |
| Payment/billing/admin | ceac | |
| ISP regulatory / ADR / compliance | ceac | |
| Backhaul | connectivity | |
| Failover | connectivity | |
| WISP maintenance | connectivity | |
| bioQUBE operator | bioenergy | |
| bioQUBE service | bioenergy | |
| Digestate credit | bioenergy | |
| powerQUBE overhaul reserve | bioenergy |
Lifecycle / Membership
Carbon
Carbon model: In development
Engineering basis
Connectivity: Site survey required · Off-grid endurance: Planning value
- powerQUBE electrical output — Rated
- powerQUBE availability — Planning value
- Annual biogas requirement — Planning value
- Battery nominal capacity — Rated
- Solar capacity — Rated
- bioQUBE / powerQUBE system capital — Planning value
- Connectivity capital — Planning value
- A10 CEAC core capital — Modelled
- A10 annual consumption — Modelled
- Proposed membership — Planning value
Technical provenance
- energy.powerqube.electricalOutputKwe — RATED · project baseline / QUBE matrix
- energy.powerqube.availability — INDICATIVE · project baseline
- feedstock.annualBiogasRequirementM3 — INDICATIVE · project baseline / supplier matrix
- storage.battery.nominalKwh — RATED · Fogstar six × 5.12 kWh
- solar.capacityKwp — RATED · project brief
- capital.bioqubePowerqubeSystem.amountGbp — INDICATIVE · planning allowance
- connectivity.capex.amountGbp — INDICATIVE · Backhaul_v02 placeholders
- compute.scenarios.A10.ceacCoreCapex — MODELLED · Reconciled_v02
- compute.scenarios.A10.annualConsumptionKwh — MODELLED · Power_v02
- membership.proposedMonthlyPerHomeGbp — INDICATIVE · published v2 target fee
Baseline hash 823d96dd800afa55… · ceac-model-v0.4.yaml
Exports
Download the current model in YAML, JSON, CSV or Excel format for engineering and project review.