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Bedrock Energy Corp.

Store. Restore. Respect.

Bedrock is an EnergyTech startup focused on the clean energy transition and AI data sovereignty for Canada.

Storage · Firm generation · Grid connection

Ontario’s next load needs power it can count on

Demand is returning faster than firm supply, and the fastest-growing part of it runs every hour of the year. Bedrock develops the sites that can serve it, and sell the surplus back to the grid.

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Where to start

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The project

An integrated energy centre on an existing 500 kV corridor in Huron County: storage, firm generation and a connected data campus.

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Data & Energy Sovereignty

Why Canada’s next decade of computing needs firm power under Canadian control, and what that asks of Ontario.

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The community

Bluewater, the August 2026 vote, and what is different about the project that comes back.

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Our approach

Making clean power dependable enough to build on


Decarbonising a grid was never one technology replacing another. It is a question of what gets built, where it sits, and what covers the hours the weather does not. The computing infrastructure going up alongside it asks the same question, in a hurry. Both need the same three answers at once: consistency, so the power is there in every hour of the year; diversity, so no single resource has to carry the load alone; and cost that falls rather than rises as the system gets cleaner.

No one technology delivers all three. A combination can: four assets on one connection, sized so a continuous load can be served around the clock and the surplus sold to the grid. Each covers a weakness in the others, which is what turns intermittent generation into power somebody can sign a contract for.

It is also where the cost case comes from. Wind and solar charge the storage instead of being curtailed, so energy already paid for is sold rather than spilled. The reservoirs are already underground and the transmission already crosses the site, so two of the largest costs in a project of this kind are never incurred at all.

Bedrock Energy Campus

Generating and storage capacity on the Bedrock site: Compressed air 500 MW, Batteries 200 MW, Gas turbines 600 MW, 1,300 MW in all 38% 15% 46% On site 1,300 MW

Generating and storage capacity on the site

Capacity by asset

Compressed air500 MW
Batteries200 MW
Gas turbines600 MW
Non-combustion 700 MW
Total 1,300 MW
Capacity, not annual output: how much each asset runs in a given year depends on weather, price and system need. Source: the integrated project as filed with the IESO, October 2026.
How the site's assets work together Wind, solar and off-peak grid power flow into compressed air storage, gas turbines and batteries on the site, which in turn supply a data campus and export to the Ontario grid. Selecting a condition shows which paths are active. Into the site On site Out of the site Wind Ontario generation Solar Ontario generation Grid Off-peak surplus Compressed air 500 MW · 8 hours Gas turbines 600 MW Batteries 200 MW Data campus 500 MW Ontario grid up to 1,000 MW

The wind is blowing and the province does not need the power. Surplus goes underground as compressed air and into the batteries instead of being curtailed, and the campus runs on what was stored earlier. The turbines stand down.

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How CAES works, in three minutes

The full cycle: surplus, compression, storage in porous rock, and generation back to the grid, with about 66% of the energy returned. See the figure and its source.

3 min

The storage asset

Energy held in rock that was already there


Compressed air storage is one of four assets on the site, and the one nobody else can replicate quickly. It charges on surplus electricity, burns nothing, and holds eight hours of supply underground.

Surplus generation on the Ontario grid
Surplus electricity driving air compression
Compressed air held in porous rock formations
Stored air generating electricity at peak demand

01 · Surplus

Energy that would otherwise be wasted

Ontario generates more electricity than it needs in periods of low demand. Without somewhere to put it, that surplus is curtailed.

02 · Compress

Surplus becomes compressed air

That electricity drives compressors instead of being thrown away. The equipment is proven and already in industrial service.

03 · Store

Held in natural rock reservoirs

The air is stored in porous geological formations already present underground: existing environmental features, put to use rather than replaced.

04 · Generate

Returned to the grid on demand

The air is reheated with the heat captured on the way in and expanded through generating trains. Nothing is burned, and the site can hold 75 MW for three days if the system needs it.

The first project

What one site can carry

Bedrock Energy Campus, Bayfield. Filed with the IESO in October 2026.

On site

1,300

Megawatts of generation and storage

To the grid

1,000

Megawatts of export capacity

In total

The shape of the campus

1,300 MW on site
1,000 MW export capacity
8h Long-duration storage
198 Acre plant site
A solar field in Ontario
Solar now makes sense for Canada

Where Bedrock works

Two reservoir positions in southwestern Ontario


Bayfield is the first project and the most advanced. Stanley is held and not yet developed. Both use geological features that already exist, in communities Bedrock has been meeting with since 2023.

Bedrock site Demand centre

Energy flow from Bedrock's sites across Ontario Ontario, with Bedrock's Bayfield and Stanley sites in Huron County and the demand centres they serve: London, Kitchener–Waterloo, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa, Windsor and Sudbury. Hudson Bay James Bay Lake Superior Lake Huron Lake Erie Lake Ontario London Toronto Ottawa Windsor Sudbury Bayfield & Stanley

Choose a place to trace its connections. Drag to pan, or use the zoom controls.

Supply profile

500 MW for eight hours, every day

8 hDaily discharge at full rating

75 MWHeld for three days in an emergency

10 minStanding start to full load

Storage figures for the Bayfield project as filed with the IESO in October 2026. The three-day reserve is an emergency mode, not a daily one.

Summer evening at Bayfield harbour

Site 01

Bayfield

Municipality of Bluewater, Huron County. A 198-acre plant site on an existing 500 kV corridor, filed with the IESO in October 2026. The project

Photo: cate cuerden, CC BY 2.0

Lake Huron shoreline in the Municipality of Bluewater

Site 02

Stanley

Municipality of Bluewater, Huron County. The second reservoir position, held since 2017 and not yet developed.

Photo: Magnolia677, CC BY 4.0 (Lake Huron at Bayfield)

Bedrock is returning to Bluewater council with the integrated project.

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The geology

Ontario’s unique geology makes this possible

The reef formations under Huron County, why they held gas for 450 million years, and what that means for storing air in them.

4 min

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Impact · 06 March 2023

Ontario’s Energy Future (Net Zero)

Barring a technological miracle, Ontario’s $400 billion plan to “decarbonize” its electrical grid will lean heavily on energy storage.…

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