Energy Verticals
Methane is live today: 2,611 ECCC sites, with generator ROI. The official plant file adds 1,049 renewable plants (mostly August 2017) and 207 remote communities (2025). A miner build on those pins uses recorded power only. The older counts on the cards below are separate claims. They are not that plant file.
Curtailed Wind in the Prairies
beta- →Alberta & Saskatchewan see recurring negative-price hours — ideal for interruptible mining load
- →Containerized ASIC farms can ramp 0→100% in minutes to absorb spill without grid contracts
- →~340 candidate wind farms identified via IESO/AESO curtailment reports (beta dataset)
Filter AB/SK power_generation sites on the live map as a methane-adjacent proxy · Open map
Waste Heat → Hash
beta- →Pulp & paper, refineries, and data centres vent megawatts of low-grade heat daily
- →Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) + immersion cooling pairs well with stranded ASIC deployments
- →Stacked with methane capture: treat exhaust heat as bonus kW after genset prime power
Explore pulp_paper and refinery source types for heat-adjacent methane sites · Open map
2,611 mapped ECCC vent/flare sites. Live map, ROI, generators.
Grid-curtailed wind farms in AB/SK. Battery + mining buffer.
Official plant file: 241 wind plants. The 340 figure on this card is a beta curtailment claim, not that file, and not unused power.
Behind-the-meter solar spill in ON/BC. Daytime mining clusters.
Official plant file: 138 solar plants. The 180 figure is a separate beta claim, not that file.
Industrial exhaust, data centre heat, flare stack thermal.
No official waste-heat site file is on the map. The 420 figure is a beta claim, not a pin count.
Agricultural digesters, forestry residues, landfill gas expansion.
Official plant file: 111 biomass plants. Statistics Canada publishes 2025 biomass generation and no 2025 biomass capacity, so those plants are not given a miner payback. The 290 figure is a separate roadmap claim, not that file.
Remote micro-hydro spill in BC/QC/NWT. Seasonal surplus.
Official plant file: 555 hydro plants. The 75 hydro-spill figure is a separate roadmap claim, not that file. A miner build uses nameplate times the province capacity factor. It is not spare spill.
Official files on the map
These counts are the shipped plant and remote files. Geothermal plants in that file: 0. Tidal: 1. Pumped storage: 1. Other renewable: 2. Remote diesel, oil, or gas: 143. Remote hydro: 32. Already on a grid: 32. Source not stated: 0.
Infrastructure points, province shades, solar images, and hydrokinetic polygons are on the map and are not miner sites. The hydrokinetic file does not publish kilowatts.