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Originally Posted by ericmacm
Geothermal energy is becoming viable on a small-scale basis in Canada. There's a company called Deep Earth Energy Production that is working on a 20 MW plant in Saskatchewan. Small geothermal operations like these are planned to be used to power smaller industrial operations like greenhouses. They plan to build 4 more if the first plant proves to be successful.
In short, it exists, but it's definitely not even remotely suitable for large-scale provincial baseload power. Nuclear and geothermal serve two totally different purposes.
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There is also a The deep well closed loop system being developed in Rocky Mountain house, Another in Swan hills and another in Greenview county up near Grande Prairie. The information developed by the O&G sector identifies quite a few places that Geo would work. There is also a study on repurposing orphan wells.
Blatchford Development is using a low temp geo exchange system. 500, 100 meter wells.
As for the A2A I do not think it will get approval any time soon, however I really thing it should run into Whitehorse and maybe along the Alaska highway right of way. Will not see a line up to Dawson.
As for the access to Norman wells they could run a line along the old Canol pipeline route. We will see the all weather road to Norman wells and Inuvik done before that happens though.