Canada:

Saskatchewan Geothermal Plant Remains On Track (Lifestyles Publications)

Kirsten Marcia
(Courtesy Lifestyles Publications)

Kirsten Marcia remains confident that the Estevan area will be home to Canada’s first geothermal power plant.

A former Estevan resident, Marcia is the CEO of DEEP Earth Energy Production. Their objective is to drill into heat resources at least three kilometres below the earth’s surface.

An engineering and design study is scheduled to happen late this year, and Marcia said construction would begin next year. Power generation would follow in 2015.

It would be a demonstration project that would produce five MWe, allow them to understand the resource and plan for the future build-out.

“We're very optimistic that the resource is so vast that it could ultimately produce several hundred megawatts of power,” said Marica.

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