The Canadian Geothermal Association (CanGEA) Responds to BC Hydro and Geoscience BC Report - Geothermal Industry Questions Lack of Standards Used
Today the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association (CanGEA) released its response to the recent Geoscience BC report: “An Assessment of the Economic Viability of Selected Geothermal Resources in British Columbia”.The report addressed 3 main topics. The very fulsome appendix (B-S) provided, in our opinion, a vast amount of useful information about certain geothermal sites in BC. It is greatly appreciated by the industry.
Despite this useful information, CanGEA found various serious shortcomings in the other two topics of the report, which were identified in our response. The Volumetric Assessment (MW of geothermal potential) that was completed, for example, had some significant errors that we identified in our response. In particular, the vast Hot Sedimentary Aquifer located in NE BC, that includes several 1,000’s of MW of resource, was not included in the MW estimate for the province derived in the report.