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iQ LOOP Advances North American Market Entry With Invest Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario — June 2026 iQ LOOP's CEO, Daniel Henbest, and Head of Americas, Turgut Abacioglu, completed a week-long market-entry mission to Ottawa, meeting with Invest Ottawa, Kanata North Technology Park, Area X.O, and Natural Resources Canada to lay the groundwork for the company's Canadian operations. The engagement confirmed strong commercial interest in iQ LOOP's aluminium-based energy storage platform, particularly its ability to deliver dispatchable power during p
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Coherence, Not Just Capacity: What the "Coherence Economy" Means for the Energy Transition
Why closing the loop alone on materials, capital, and power might be the source of the same problem. Hayley Moffiet's latest essay, "The Coherence Economy," offers an argument that energy professionals will recognise despite the fact that it is not about energy at all. She contends that we don't lack ideas, wealth, or technology to develop a better economy; rather, we lack coherence among the components. Capital reward extraction. Even within dispersed structures, governance
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Storing Energy in Aluminium: A Chemical Battery Strategy Aligned with the Kardashev Scale
Introduction - Storing Energy in Aluminium Why the next generation of energy storage looks like a bar of metal, not a battery pack. As civilizations climb the Kardashev Scale, the challenge shifts from generating energy to storing it. Harnessing ever greater flows of stellar or planetary power means managing intermittency at a scale no volatile chemical cell can support — the surplus has to be held as dense, inert, stable mass instead. Aluminium is emerging as the leading can
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The Need for Platforms Like iQ LOOP
Every major economy is now confronting the same tension. The demand for firm, clean, deployable energy is rising sharply, while the infrastructure that delivers it — the grid — cannot keep pace. Data centres turn to gas because connections are delayed. Industrial sites stay on diesel and LPG because clean alternatives are too difficult to deploy. Renewable developers curtail output because there is nowhere for surplus power to go. Each of these is the same gap: clean energy e
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iQ LOOP Advances North American Market Entry With Invest Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario — June 2026 iQ LOOP's CEO, Daniel Henbest, and Head of Americas, Turgut Abacioglu, completed a week-long market-entry mission to Ottawa, meeting with Invest Ottawa, Kanata North Technology Park, Area X.O, and Natural Resources Canada to lay the groundwork for the company's Canadian operations. The engagement confirmed strong commercial interest in iQ LOOP's aluminium-based energy storage platform, particularly its ability to deliver dispatchable power during p
Jun 261 min read
iQ LOOP Plans Kanata North Energy Pilot to Prove Peak-Demand Economics
Kanata North, Ontario — 2026 iQ LOOP is developing a managed-energy pilot at Kanata North Technology Park, designed to demonstrate how its aluminium-based storage platform can reduce peak electricity demand for a shared campus of tenants. The project is structured as a landlord-led collaboration: the park provides the site and coordinates participating tenants, and the pilot generates shared evidence on cost savings and reliability that the wider park can act on. The pilot wi
Jun 261 min read
iQ LOOP Pursues Federal and Provincial Funding to Accelerate Canadian Deployment
Ottawa, Ontario — 2026 iQ LOOP has submitted an Expression of Interest to the Future Fuels Challenge, a federal program supporting next-generation fuel and energy storage technologies, as part of a consortium spanning mining, transportation, fuel-cell, and industrial partners across Ontario. The company is also pursuing support through the Industrial Transformation Challenge, which funds industrial decarbonisation projects. Both applications position iQ LOOP's Canadian pilots
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Independent Peer-Reviewed Study Validates iQ LOOP's Aluminium Energy Storage Thesis
2026 A new peer-reviewed paper published in Advanced Energy Materials — authored by researchers at the University of Perugia, AIT Austria, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's Helmholtz Institute Ulm — provides independent scientific validation of the core mechanism behind iQ LOOP's platform: using aluminium as a circular carrier to store off-peak renewable electricity and release heat and hydrogen on demand. The paper highlights aluminium's exceptional volumetric ener
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The Economics of iQ LOOP — Measured Against Diesel and the Alternatives
The Economics of iQ LOOP — Measured Against Diesel and the AlternativesClean energy systems are not adopted because they are clean. They are adopted because they make commercial sense. iQ LOOP is designed to compete on the one metric that decides whether a large energy user will engage: the cost of firm, dispatchable power. The benchmark is diesel. For remote sites, backup duty, and peak-demand periods, diesel remains embedded because it is reliable and deployable, despite be
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Energy as a Delivery Problem — and Energy Moved as Material
The energy transition is usually framed as a generation challenge: build more wind, more solar, more clean capacity. But generation is increasingly the part that works. Renewable electricity is abundant — it is simply produced at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or behind grid constraints that take years to relieve. The real problem is delivery. Today, the only ways to move energy are to push electrons through congested networks or to transport compressed hydrogen and foss
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Circular, Zero-Emission Energy Systems of the Future
The energy systems that will matter most this century share three properties: they are circular, they produce no emissions in operation, and they can be deployed wherever energy is needed rather than only where the grid reaches. iQ LOOP is built around all three. At the centre is a simple idea: aluminium is one of the most energy-dense materials available, holding roughly 23.5 kWh per litre — close to ten times the energy density of liquid hydrogen. iQ LOOP charges aluminium
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