The Building Texas Show podcast has released a new episode featuring LOCOAL Founder and CEO Miles Murray, who announced the installation of the company's first commercial full-scale waste-to-energy unit just outside Houston. This milestone validates LOCOAL's technology for transforming organic and rubber waste into clean energy, high-purity bio-carbon, and advanced industrial inputs, representing a new category of mobile modular bioenergy infrastructure designed to make landfills obsolete.
Murray explained how LOCOAL's patented 50-foot system utilizes thermal decomposition, gas filtration, and bio-oil reclamation to convert wood waste, pallet tailings, storm debris, forestry byproducts, and tires into clean power and sequestered carbon while producing less than 1% ash. "This world continues to compile massive amounts of underutilized resources we call 'trash,'" Murray said during the interview. "But there's enormous value inside that waste stream. We've built a system that goes to the source of the problem and turns what was once a cost into a revenue-generating feedstock."
The first commercial pilot is operating at 4840 Solutions, the largest pallet recycler in the country, which generates significant wood waste from daily operations. The system eliminates costly transportation and landfill disposal while producing usable commodities such as clean energy, bio-oil, and high-purity carbon. This development is particularly significant for wildfire mitigation in Texas, where Central Texas is 88% more likely to experience wildfire conditions compared to national averages. LOCOAL's technology offers cities, counties, and landowners a measurable way to reduce combustible biomass accumulation while generating market-grade energy and carbon.
Murray outlined how agricultural operations, concrete manufacturers, steel producers, filtration companies, and battery researchers are increasingly turning to high-purity biochar as a critical input for next-generation materials. With over $250 million in letters of intent and $50 million in strategic commitments through Curtis Stout Power, LOCOAL is now scaling production and preparing for national deployment. The company's newly issued U.S. patent, with protections through 2044, positions it as a category-defining leader in decentralized energy and carbon-negative infrastructure.
"2026 is the breakout year," Murray said. "We're moving from commercial pilots to full market deployment with buyers and operators across the country. What once was waste will now become a powerful part of the American energy and carbon economy." The episode is available on The Building Texas Show across all major podcast platforms.
