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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
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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
Jul 122 min read
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
Jun 271 min read
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
Jun 261 min read
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
Jun 261 min read
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
Jun 261 min read
The Next Constraint on Technology Growth Is Energy
For two decades, the limiting factor in technology has been compute, capital, or talent. That is changing. The binding constraint on the next wave of growth — artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, electrified industry — is energy, and more precisely, the ability to deliver firm, affordable power exactly where and when it is needed. The evidence is already visible. Britain's largest data centre, a £9 billion development in Bedfordshire, will run on its own gas gener
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