The Economics of iQ-LOOP — Measured Against Diesel and the Alternatives

Clean 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 being costly, carbon-intensive, and exposed to volatile fuel prices. iQ-LOOP's target is direct: deliver dispatchable power at least 10% cheaper than diesel, with predictable pricing fixed over several years. For large electricity users, that second point carries as much weight as the first. A few hours of peak demand each weekday set the tariff a customer pays across the following year, so reducing those peaks reshapes a full year of energy economics, not just a costly afternoon.

Against compressed hydrogen, iQ-LOOP avoids the expense and complexity of pressurisation and transport. Against batteries, it offers a transportable, non-degrading store that is not tethered to the grid. The proposition is not that iQ-LOOP is a cleaner machine. It is that iQ-LOOP lowers the bill, and the cleaner outcome comes with it.