Monday, May 6, 2013

Canada:

DEEP to Study Saskatchewan’s Geothermal Potential (globalnews.ca)



A Saskatoon company is planning on using funding to study Saskatchewan’s geothermal potential and have a plant producing green energy in the near future.

Natural Resources Canada and SaskPower intend on contributing $2.2 million to Saskatoon’s DEEP Earth Energy Production Corp. (DEEP) for a study on the economic and technical viability of geothermal energy in southeast Saskatchewan.

DEEP intends to pursue a 5 MWe binary geothermal power plant that would be located near Estevan and would generate power from a hot aquifer located 3 km under the surface.

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