Making a difference™ by creating
clean, abundant, affordable energy
for the world
MAD™ Energy is a clean energy infrastructure developer and technology incubator.
Make A Difference™ (MAD™) – By providing clean, abundant and affordable energy, MAD™ is pioneering a freer and more prosperous world.
Clean, abundant and affordable energy for the world.
MAD is advancing its mission through the construction, installation, and ongoing maintenance/repair of plants and apparatus for the supply and distribution of electricity, natural gas, and other forms of clean energy.
Empowering a global energy renaissance
Technological advancements in power generation and distribution are poised to unlock an unprecedented level of abundance for humanity.
Transforming the global energy value chain
Initiated by investments in clean, large scale transitional energy infrastructure and fulfilled by the research and development of next generation energy technologies, MAD™ Energy is reviving and surpassing the ideas and achievements of the legacy energy value chain.
Macroeconomic conditions will yield two primary market opportunities:
- Large scale, clean energy infrastructure for emerging markets and regions of the world experiencing supply and demand imbalances.
- Next generation technologies to satisfy emergent energy requirements in industrial automation, computational infrastructure, electrification, and distributed energy solutions.
- Significant energy and data center development aimed at providing a sustainable energy solution for growing demand of AI and cloud computing.
Inference Energy
Clean Energy Parks for Co-Located Data Centers
Quantum Wave
Next Generation Technology
Adacen
Power for Clean Data Centers
Founded by World-Class Energy Leaders with a History of Success
The Team That Is Making A Difference Now

George Wentz
Managing Director & CEO

Steve Youngdahl
Managing Director & COO

Daniel Davillier
Managing Director

Enrique Lucas De Leyva
Managing Director

Luke Hedquist
CBO

Chris Hummel
VP E&C

Fawn Petit
SEA

Byron Ward
PM

Donald Petit
OM

Beate Clark
Staff Accountant
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George R. Wentz Jr.
Managing Director & CEO
George R. Wentz, Jr. is a partner with the Davillier Law Group, which has offices in New Orleans, Louisiana and Sandpoint, Idaho. Mr. Wentz received his Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Delaware, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, in 1983 and served as the Administrative Editor of the Georgetown International Law Journal.
Mr. Wentz was appointed to the Office of Policy Development of the Federal Trade Commission by President Ronald Reagan, where he analyzed the economic impact of trade laws and regulations. He also developed and proposed legislative and regulatory approaches to enhance the overall efficiency of regulatory bodies. Since his days in the Reagan Administration, Mr. Wentz has continued to work in the areas of constitutional law and the intersection of economics and law.
Mr. Wentz has over thirty years experience in handling complex international litigation, maritime litigation, oil and gas exploration and production matters, alternative dispute resolution, international transactions, and providing general business advice. Mr. Wentz has been chosen to serve as an arbitrator in several significant international arbitrations.
Mr. Wentz has a reputation as a result-oriented lawyer known for innovative thinking and problem solving. During his career, he has worked in most aspects of the oil and gas business, representing leading international oil and gas exploration and production companies. He has also represented CFE (the power company of Mexico) in various matters. Mr. Wentz has been active in the power generation industry as well as the transportation industry on national and international levels.
Mr. Wentz has represented underwriters of various energy and power generation companies in significant subrogation matters, including Houston Casualty Company and underwriters at Lloyd’s of London. He has expertise in international tax issues related to offshore banking as well as commodities transactions, including banking and financing related to those transactions.
Mr. Wentz has assisted alternative energy and high tech companies in bringing their products to market.
Mr. Wentz is an active member of the Louisiana State Bar Association. He provided pro bono work following Katrina, where his efforts assisted in the formation of New Orleans’ public-private partnership for economic development. He received the 2008 Leadership in Law Award from New Orleans City Business Magazine.
Mr. Wentz is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the United States Court of Federal Claims, the United States Supreme Court, and all Louisiana State Courts. He has also litigated cases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and in various Texas state courts.
Mr. Wentz resides in Sandpoint, Idaho. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Idaho College of Law, where he teaches a course in International Business Transactions.

Steve Youngdahl
Managing Director & COO
Mr. Youngdahl’s extensive experience in sales and marketing spans a 45-year career.
He worked for Sebastiani Vineyards from 1977 to 1984, rising to Director of Marketing where he was an integral member of the team that launched the August Sebastiani Country Wine brand. The winery was undergoing a transformation to segregate and differentiate the premium varietals from the larger bulk wines. The successful rebranding from that effort was transformational and positioned the winery for future success.
In 1984, Mr. Youngdahl entered the commercial real estate brokerage business in Sonoma and quickly joined the ranks of top commercial real estate brokers in the area. He specialized in creating value in properties that was previously unrecognized.
In 1991, he moved his family to Sandpoint, Idaho where he founded, owned and operated Sandpoint Mortgage from 1991 to 2001. Sandpoint Mortgage became one of the leading lenders in Bonner County during the 90’s. He was responsible for hiring, training and managing the business. He was also the local expert on the Mac version of QuickBooks.
In 2001, Mr. Youngdahl started a successful financial counseling business.
Mr. Youngdahl returned to his marketing and sales roots in 2015 by starting and operating an LED light sales business. He specializes in providing cost analysis studies to assist commercial property owners in transitioning to more efficient LED lights and utilizing utility company incentives.
Volunteer activities include coaching T-Ball and Junior Tackle Football.
He was a Trustee on the Lake Pend Oreille School District Board for 11 years and served as Board Chair for his last five years. His leadership skills helped move the district into the upper echelons of student achievement in Idaho. When he retired from the Board, he started and hosted a local radio show called The School Zone dedicated to showcasing the Lake Pend Oreille School District.

Daniel Davillier
Managing Director
Daniel E. Davillier is the founder of the Davillier Law Group, LLC. Prior to launching the firm, Mr. Davillier was a partner at Phelps Dunbar, LLP. He advises clients in commercial finance, commercial real estate, commodities trade transactions, general business, local governmental relations, and gaming. In connection with the film industry in Louisiana, Mr. Davillier represents financial institutions and production companies concerning film finance, tax credit, and related matters. Mr. Davillier also represents a number of professional athletes in the NBA and NFL concerning commercial transactions throughout the United States, including the acquisition of businesses, the establishment of 501(c)(3) non-profit corporations, and the recovery of funds from third parties.
Mr. Davillier holds a Bachelor of Science degree in General Business from the University of New Orleans. He graduated, cum laude, from Tulane University Law School in 1994. While at Tulane, Mr. Davillier served as President of the Black Law Students Association and served on the Moot Court Board. He was inducted into the international legal fraternity, Phi Delta Phi, and won American Jurisprudence Awards for Security Rights and Obligations II. He is a recipient of the 2011 Leadership in Law Award from the New Orleans City Business publication and the 2012 Multicultural Leadership Award from the Louisiana Diversity Council.
Mr. Davillier is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, New Orleans Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, American Bar Association, National Bar Association and the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society. He is also a graduate of the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute and has served on the boards of the Louisiana Children’s Museum, the National Conference for Community and Justice, the New Orleans Regional Black Chamber of Commerce, and St. Augustine High School.

Enrique Lucas de Leyva
Managing Director
Enrique is a partner with the Anaford law group which has offices in Zurich Switzerland, Madrid Espana, Valencia Espana, Barcelona Espana, and San Diego United States. He specializes in corporate tax law, advising on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and business combinations, taxation of foreign investment structures in Spain and Spanish investment in foreign countries. He has been involved in numerous group restructurings, Real Estate investments and shareholder withdrawals.
He has vast experience in negotiating and closing M&A and private equity transactions, regularly advising private equity funds and industrial groups in their expansion phase.
Given his experience in different sectors, Enrique serves as secretary or board member of several business groups and as a member of the advisory board of several international companies.
In addition, Enrique frequently advises high net worth private clients, family businesses and family offices on wealth management, succession planning and efficient remuneration schemes.
Executive Summary:
- Fermi America (FRMI) is pioneering the development of next-generation private grids that deliver highly redundant power at gigawatt scale, required to create next-generation artificial intelligence.
- Delivering global energy and AI dominance with the Project Matador campus, with plans to include safe, clean, new nuclear power, the nation’s biggest combined-cycle natural gas project, utility grid power, solar power, and battery energy storage at unprecedented scale.
Vision and Mission:
Deliver hybrid clean energy parks tailored for the AI and data center era—combining solar, natural gas, geothermal and storage into reliable, onsite power at scale.
Clean energy parks:
- Modular hybrid parks combining base load power with natural gas while utilizing solar for intermittent, renewable-based power.
- Utilize paired storage (pumped geothermal storage as well as Lithium-Ion or other battery-based storage) to provide firming of renewables as well as provide operational flexibility for natural gas plant.
- Designed specifically for data center co-location.
- Behind-the-meter and in-front-of-meter flexibility.
Quantum Wave™ Wireless Energy
Nikola Tesla was first to propose the concept of wireless electrical transmission over long distances. Unfortunately, his vision of global wireless power distribution was never fully realized during his lifetime.
Over the past several years, a team of dedicated experimenters and scientists have investigated and expanded Tesla’s vision of wireless electrical technology with astonishing results. We believe that wireless electricity transmission over hundreds of feet or hundreds of miles may soon be not only a possibility but reality.
Our goal is to power automobiles, ships, trains, aircraft, virtually any type of transportation system with clean, abundant wireless energy. Quantum Wave™ is managing the development, installation, maintenance, and repair of systems for supplying, distributing, metering, and monitoring electricity delivered wirelessly over long distances.
ADACEN is a specialized data center operator and data solutions provider that is deploying cutting edge technology and infrastructure optimized for: 1) maximum infrastructure resiliency & security, 2) substantial efficiencies enabling lean operations, and 3) next-generation performance & scalability.
Central to ADACEN’s deployment model is securing each of these next generation data centers with pre-grid power. Building in utility-scale power sources that are directly connected to the infrastructure enables long-term data center operations during periods of grid failure or denial.
Enter MAD™ Energy – MAD™ Energy has entered an exclusive contract as ADACEN’s Power Integrator wherein MAD™ will provide a clean, stabilizing power supply for the rollout of a global network of ADACEN data center infrastructure.



