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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Canada: Plan to Retrofit Oil & Gas Wells for Geothermal Energy

Pilot project in geothermal energy comes to Hinton, AB (UAlberta)

Research associate Jonathan Banks.
Photo credit: John Ulan
A UAlberta research partnership to retrofit Oil & Gas wells near Hinton has the potential to provide megawatts of power to the local community.

It’s the latest project to investigate the use of geothermal energy.

“We pump hot water from underground using wells, use the heat to create power, and then inject the cooled water back into the ground at another local site, where it will heat up again,” explained Jonathan Banks, research associate in the University of Alberta’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

Long-term, the project has the potential to provide hundreds of megawatts of power to the community using geothermal energy.

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