Environmental Stewardship Manager Michelle Gairdner says they have looked at the success of geothermal energy in other places. "Iceland was the one that I found really interesting in that 80% of their energy is being generated through geothermal, so the cost is substantially lower. It's much more efficient than any other renewables such as wind or solar, so it's much more cost effective."
As for the timeline of the study Gairdner says "They anticipate to start towards the end of this year, and hope to have something by the beginning of 2017 that would give, and again that's the is it feasible and some of the economic modelling that it would cost to go forward and do a project." The study is being done by the University of Alberta with support from Alberta Innovates.
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