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Friends of Airloom,

As we update you on Airloom Energy operations and business development this month, we extend our gratitude and appreciation to the U.S. military service members in the Middle East, and hope for their safety in this conflict, and swift return home.

The War in Iran has openly escalated the conversation around energy security, showing up in headlines, board meetings, and dinner tables around the world.

At home and abroad, the fragility of a fossil-fuel-dependent energy system is coming to the foreground. Energy security – defined as reliable power supply, deployed fast, flexibly and cost-efficiently, and available on demand – is a need Airloom systems can deliver on.

And we’re staying the course, because every month we move closer to scaling a new era for resilient energy. Read below for updates on our pilot site construction progress, CDR follow ups, commercial conversations, and community engagement.

March Snapshot
Highlights
– Two new hires in operations and site management
– Back onsite to re-start track assembly, move construction forward

Hurdles
– Some vendors have been slow to provide quotes, delaying selection and budget decisions, but we’re still within our critical path timeline
– Belt testing continues
More details below.

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Commercial Update
We’re firming up initial spec sheets and product decks as we continue to explore commercial demo sites and prospective partners.

We have evaluated over 20 potential sites. These include projects in Wyoming, New Mexico, California, and Texas that show strongest potential, while we continue to evaluate other locations across the Midwest.

We have finalized our safe harbor IRA tax credits strategy and are executing on that to ensure tax credits are possible for 3-4 additional projects beyond our pilot site.

Airloom also just returned from Athens for our third of six sessions in the NATO DIANA program, where we continue to refine how our technology is positioned for NATO defense applications.

Our Head of Commercial Strategy, Mike German, and Heather Snyder, our partner at SBIR Advisors, pitched the Hellenic National Defence College. Discussions with Greek defense stakeholders provided insight into which priorities are shaping defense investments.

We met with NATO DIANA mentor George Markopoulos (HELLENiQ Energy, Offshore Wind Manager), who expressed strong interest in Airloom’s potential within Greece’s public energy sector, reinforcing its dual-use relevance.

Looking ahead, we are pursuing follow-on conversations with Northern European nations regarding energy needs in the arctic. It’s where we’ve seen the most traction so far in the program, due to a convergence of energy vulnerability, infrastructure fragility, and an increased military presence requiring reliable power sources.

We’ll also begin a workstream to leverage NATO DIANA program resources to identify pilot and testing opportunities with best-fit labs, testbeds, or field environments explicitly focused on validating commercial products for defense readiness.

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Left & Middle: Mike German and Heather Snyder at NATO DIANA in Athens.
Right: Mike German presents to Hellenic National Defence College

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Pilot Site & Technical Progress
Coming out February’s Critical Design Review (CDR – where our designs were extensively vetted, components were tested for interoperability and reliability, and drawings that unlock remaining fabrication were finalized), we’re making progress on the thorough set of action items resulting from those discussions.

Of the 519 total comments across operations, assembly, and controls, the team has already completed 411 of those actions. The remaining 108 action items will be addressed between now and the completion of our power curve validation this summer.

Belt testing also continues. While all designs are complete, we’re intentionally racking up testing hours prior to installing it on the pilot system, so that we have as clear a picture of how this critical piece functions within the integrated system as possible. We continue to test two belts in parallel to reduce testing time and maintain a tight schedule ahead of installation.

The team is also focused on fabrication of the traveler and wing assembly. As a reminder, the travelers will be the parts of the system that attach the wing to the track and allow it to move forward with the force of the wind.

Sourcing suppliers that fit Airloom’s first-of-a-kind specifications takes time and special vetting, and we’re glad to report we’ve found the right shops that are willing to help us work through novel fabrication, assembly, and delivery of the first traveler. We’re developing these pieces in California so that we can test them with the track sections that are also on the West Coast, to begin fine tuning the suspension for the traveler wheels before they are shipped for installation in Wyoming.

The traveler’s bent sheet metal parts (outrigger plates) and main structural members have started fabrication, as seen below. These allow our travelers to take the load from the wings, and transfer them to the wheels – critical for ensuring vertical alignment for the wings, and offer a primary laid pathway. Initial bent sheet metal parts like these allow the team to confirm there are no deformed holes, and to conduct initial quality checks on critical dimensions and tolerances.

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Figure: Outrigger plates after laser cutting

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Figure: Outrigger plate after bending is complete

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Figure: Final outrigger plates after final reamed holes and bars are removed from the window.

The team is also beginning to fabricate parts for the wheel assembly. Below are some initial parts that will become the wheel “spider” assembly, which will house the suspension as well as carry the loads from the wheels to the traveler chassis, distributing torque.

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Figure: Spider sheet metal parts ready for next step assembly.

As the traveler chassis is being produced, we have a separate team working on the molds for the elevator tail. This piece provides passive stability to the system during operations while also housing our active control actuators that will position the wing at its optimal angle relative to the wind – a critical function!

The pictures below are the “blue block” foam tooling that will be sealed and then used to form the elevator tail’s master molds, from which future parts will be pulled.

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Figure: Tooling for our elevator tail has started.

This elevator tail is the main composites assembly on the traveler and was required to be very lightweight due to its position on the traveler. For example: It’s the difference between opening a door in your house and opening a church door from the 1400s - the weight and inertia is much harder to open when it is a large and heavy object. We opted for a lightweight control surface as that makes for an easier-to-control Airloom system.

Stay tuned for more of our onsite development progress and belt testing updates in April.

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Community Relations
We’re gearing up for a big month in Wyoming events, starting with playing host to the Laramie Chamber Business Alliance for their monthly Business After Hours event on April 9.

We’ll be welcoming local business owners, council members, students, and the general public to our HQ to learn more about our track wind energy generation system, and to enjoy some networking, refreshments, and raffle prizes from local brands.

For those in town, you can pre-register here!

Later in April, we’ll be attending the Wyoming Venture Summit (April 13-15), and in May, we're sponsoring the Wyoming Energy Authority’s Next Frontier Energy Summit.

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The team is growing!
This month, we welcomed two new additions to the Airloom Energy team in Laramie.

Zach Carey, Field Technician

For Zach, it’s a heartfelt “welcome back.” After originally joining the team in 2020, he spent four years developing our field operations, and now he returns to the team with deep-seated dedication and commitment to the company’s success – we’re thrilled to have him with us again!

He’ll be adding capacity and rigor to critical front-line workstreams such as construction, commissioning, maintenance and long-term operational performance for Airloom’s power generation systems. His feedback to our offsite teams, anchored in a wealth of Airloom history and knowledge, will be essential as we develop operational plans for our first-of-a-kind systems. His LinkedIn can be found here.

Sam Heintz, Operations Manager

Sam joins us from the Jackson Hole Investor Group, where he supported the Wyoming venture ecosystem, and after a stint at Prometheus Hyperscale as a policy and partnerships analyst.

He’ll be supporting site readiness and logistics, procurement and vendor management, and internal business operations. Sam will also add capacity to Airloom’s community engagement functions, serving as a point of contact for local communities, landowners, and partners. LinkedIn here.

Welcome, Sam and Zach!

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Left: Sam Heintz, Operations Manager; Right: Zach Carey, Field Technician

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Upcoming Priorities
What's Next

Priorities in Q2 include:

Pilot site construction: track fit (straight and curved), continued belt testing, and building traveler units

Progressing safe harbor plans before July 4th, 2026, for our 2027 Commercial Demo to qualify for ITC/PTC
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On the Calendar
March / April: Neal's TEDxBoston talk at MIT will be published -- keep an eye on our LinkedIn!
This week, March 23-27: CERAWeek in Houston. Our Head of Commercial Strategy, Mike German, is onsite representing Airloom
March 31 - April 2: The Industry Growth Forum (formerly NREL) in Denver -- we're sponsoring! Will we see you there?
April 9: Laramie Chamber Business Alliance, Business After Hours event at Airloom HQ
April 13-15: Wyoming Venture Summit in Jackson
April 14-15: Transition AI from Latitude Media, in San Francisco. Our other Business Development lead, Eric Thompson, will be representing Airloom
April 20-22: EarthX E-Capital Summit in Dallas
May 5-6: Wyoming Energy Authority’s Next Frontier Energy Summit in Laramie
Follow us on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on our events and progress, and reach out to us with your comments and questions -- we’d love to hear from you!

— Team Airloom
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