Research

What we have not settled yet.

A standard that hid its open questions would be easier to trust and worse to rely on.

Aquadrio is built as research through design. Rules that are settled are marked settled. Rules still under argument are listed here, with the argument, so anyone relying on the record knows exactly where the soft ground is.

The research agenda

The water-gate threshold value

provisional

The eligibility bar is a policy dial. It should anchor to a published benchmark and be set precisely with a certification body rather than fixed by a draft. Where exactly the bar sits, and whether a premium tier for facilities well under it belongs alongside it, is open.

Additionality of the originated attributes

open

Do the originated attributes, timing and restraint, need an additionality test, the way vintage rules and some credit schemes require? The honest posture is to argue it, not assume it. This is open.

A marginal-emissions complementary signal

open

The chosen clean-window definition is inherited from a matched granular certificate. Whether to carry a marginal-emissions-impact attribute alongside it, as a secondary signal rather than the gate, is an open question tracked against the evolving accounting guidance.

Additional water and environmental attributes

open

Whether PFAS and other water or environmental attributes become future gate slots or additional recorded attributes on the certificate. Open, and dependent on measurable, traceable data.

The restraint-evidencing rule

provisional

Restraint cannot be certified as a mere absence of activity. The conservative default counts a hold as evidenced restraint only when deadline-bearing work could have run in a dirtier window and was deferred to a clean one. This rule is provisional, pending real-workload validation.

Live public grid data on a defensible basis

open

Shipped for the MISO footprint: the public meter runs on EIA-930 hourly data (U.S. EIA, federal public domain) with attribution and a measured delay label, degrading to a labeled simulator if the feed drops. The private operator feed stays internal by its terms of use. Still open: an equivalent public-domain source for the Quebec grid.

If you think one of these is wrong, that is a useful thing to tell us.