5 MW geothermal pilot plant planned in Canadian oil country
Drilling rig at Estevan, Saskatchewan (source: flickr/ Jeff Sandquist, creative commons)
Francisco Rojas
30 Mar 2015
Vice: "Although Deep Earth’s 5 MW plant may seem puny compared with the gigawatts of wind power going up around the coun?try, it’s the first step to proving that geothermal is a viable contender for clean energy in Canada"
Motherboard, from Vice News has released a extensive on “Deep Earth Energy Corp. preparations for Canada’s first geothermal power plant.”
The location for this first plant seems a bit daft, considering that there are other much better locations, such as the Yukon or BC (where CanGEA has been petitioning for quite some time to scrap site C for geothermal development).
The rationale behind the location has to do with existing oil and gas field, which are better known and where binary or even EGS applications can be introduced faster and with less risk. According to Vice, “Deep Earth plans to use this technology to harness the 120°C heat of a vast underground aquifer first discovered by a US oil company, Amerada Petroleum, in the 1950s. The 40,000 square kilometer aquifer is larger than Vancouver Island and has the potential to produce hundreds of megawatts of power”
The article also covers the different applications and implications of financing such projects and the consequences of EGS development.
To read the full article, please follow the link below:
Source: Motherboard – Vice News
