Canada’s oil and gas and geothermal industries team up to tap into the Earth’s furnace (Alberta Oil)
Imagine a collection of pumpjacks spread out over a southern Saskatchewan oilfield. Beside each stands a compact geothermal power plant, about the size of a dome-shaped Quonset hut, that draws hot water 24 hours a day, seven days a week from an aquifer three kilometers below the Earth’s surface.
These small facilities are tied into a common grid and can collectively produce a constant 100-megawatt supply of electricity, enough to power roughly 100,000 homes. Because the original wells for the geothermal facilities were drilled by oil and gas companies, the electricity comes at a relatively low cost.
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