The Canadian Geothermal Energy Association (CanGEA)'s Pre-Budget 2016 Submission to the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance has been accepted and CanGEA describes it as the “definitive guide to why the geothermal energy industry has not kept pace with wind and solar in Canada”.
The report has seven recommendations to advance geothermal in Canada:
- Promote energy literacy with CanGEA
- Redeploy under-employed oil, gas and mining expertise and repurpose infrastructure via the development of the geothermal industry
- Amend the Federal definition of geothermal heat by removing the requirement for a system heat pump
- Create a renewable heat incentive program to complement existing renewable energy programs
- Adjust the tax code to enable geothermal to reach parity with other natural resources funding
- Federal programs for Geothermal Power (“Activation Energy” for our industry)
- Fund the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) to assess geothermal resources
