REPORTS & RESOURCE MATERIAL

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An Introduction to Canada's Geothermal Development and the Canadian Policy Gap

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This publication gives an overview of Canadian geothermal policy, its gaps, and how to effectively address them.
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Alberta’s (And Other HSA Areas’) Strategic Potential for Geothermal Power

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Based on a report written in 2015, this report focuses on Alberta's enormous potential to produce base-load geothermal power, which could help serve the province’s entire average annual peak load of 9,426 MW. This vast potential capacity was recognized in the Alberta Department of Energy’s Energy Potential and Metrics Study. Topics included, but not limited to:What is Stopping Alberta's Renewable Energy Revolution?; The Benefits of Geothermal Energy; Alberta's Strategic Opportunity; andCanGEA’s Plan for Bringing Geothermal Online in Alberta

Direct Utilization of Geothermal Energy 2014

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CanGEA produced its first document on the direct use applications, or non-electric utilization, of geothermal heat. The purpose of the report is to bring tested, cutting edge, and internationally renowned direct use applications to Canada’s nascent geothermal industry. In 242 pages, the report covers a variety of possible applications including, but not limited to, greenhouses, aquaculture facilities, other food-related applications, district heating systems, pools and spas, and ice and snow melting. There are four sections that offer inspiration and primary instruction on designing and implementing a direct use project. Part I provides an overview of possible direct use applications; Part II outlines project development and design guidelines; Part III displays geothermal resources in Canada; and Part IV discusses direct use applications and opportunities in a Canadian context.

International Geothermal Policy Mechanisms Best Practices: Identifying the Canadian Gap

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This long awaited for, 100+ page report identifies the Canadian geothermal policy gap for both conventional and unconventional geothermal resources. If you want to know how to spur geothermal development in Canada, this is the report for you!

BACKGROUNDER - The Potential for Geothermal Energy From Co-Production in Alberta Using Existing Oil and Gas Wells 2017

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This 7-page Backgrounder provides a summary of the full report The Potential for Geothermal Energy From Co-Production in Alberta Using Existing Oil and Gas Wells. This includes a summary of the study that CanGEA conducted in partnership with Alberta Economic Development and Trade and CanGEA members Enerpro Engineering, WellDunn Consulting, Non-Linear Consulting, and Fuzeium Innovations. The backgrounder summarizes results from the study and its applications, but does not include any data sets. Readers will be able to view several maps that illustrate where wells of different temperature categories are clustered in Alberta. 

Yukon Geothermal Opportunities and Applications Report 2016

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​Providing background knowledge to the reader, the report starts with an introduction to geothermal energy and its possible applications. It details the different possibilities of power production from geothermal resources and identifies the most important direct use applications.
 
The second part of the report introduces the geothermal favourability maps of the Yukon.  It provides qualitative and quantitative information about local temperature profiles, the geothermal gradient, estimated conductivity, estimated heat flow and the technical and theoretical potential. The favourability maps were also released separately and are available as part of the Canadian National Geothermal Database (CNGD). The geothermal potential of the Yukon implies more than 1,700 MW of indicated resources at a depth of less than 5,000 metres (using a 5% recovery factor). This number rises to approximately 5,000 MW when inferred resources are considered. Approximately 100 MW of low-hanging-fruit resources are available at a depth of less than 2,000 metres.
 
The report also provides detailed information about 17 Yukon communities and their demographics, infrastructure and geothermal potential. Suitable geothermal direct use applications are discussed and valuable information for community leaders and decision makers is shared.
 
After the discussion of specific communities, four case studies from Alaska, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories are portrayed in order to display the variability of geothermal projects in northern climates and their development. Ending with information on resource identification, resource rights, market factors, uncertainty, resource exploration, environmental impact, finances and public acceptance, the report explains why these factors are essential to geothermal project development.

CanGEA Response to Geoscience BC & BC Hydro 2015

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CanGEA Responds to the shortcomings in BC Geoscience & BC Hydro's recently released report: "An assessment of the Economic Viability of Selected Geothermal Resources in British Columbia." You can only receive this report for FREE when you submit a PowEARTHful letter to your local MLA and MP through CanGEA's advocacy initiative. Click here to submit the letter!

Geothermal Technology Roadmap: Global Best Practices Summary 2013

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This 88-page report reviews what other leading nations and agencies have already published and thus informs our target audience, geothermal developers and investors, of the state-of-the-art technologies in the industry and enables them to consider applications to their own projects. For technology providers, this report will inform research and business plans by discovering what priority areas of research still remain unsolved and by identifying step-out applications for the markets they currently serve. Further, Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) are of special importance when considering the audience, as these organizations most often lack the internal resources to accumulate the type of information presented in this report in a comprehensive manner.

Databases - for private/personal  and institutional use

BC Database - For personal/private use

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The database used for the BC Resource Estimate Maps is available for purchase. The download includes the following three data sets in .csv format:
  1. All completed well data (unfiltered)
  2. All quality assurance / quality control well data (filtered)
  3. resource estimate data

Alberta Database - for personal/private use

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The database used for the Alberta Geothermal Favourability Maps is available for purchase. The download includes both .xls and .csv formats. The database includes for each grid blog (800 in total):
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1) Average ambient air temperature
2) Temperature at depths 1500m, 2500m, 3500m, 4500m, 5500m
3) Sediment Thickness

BC Database - for academic multi-use license

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The database used for the BC Resource Estimate Maps is available for purchase. The download includes the following three data sets in .csv format:
  1. All completed well data (unfiltered)
  2. All quality assurance / quality control well data (filtered)
  3. resource estimate data

Alberta Database - for academic multi-use license

C$499.99
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The database used for the Alberta Geothermal Favourability Maps is available for purchase. The download includes both .xls and .csv formats. The database includes for each grid blog (800 in total):
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1) Average ambient air temperature
2) Temperature at depths 1500m, 2500m, 3500m, 4500m, 5500m
3) Sediment Thickness

Thermal Springs of Canada: Geochemical Analysis 2015

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This 25 page document is a compilation of historical data collected from Canada’s 157 known thermal springs. It includes valuable information including the approximate location, water chemistry, temperature, and volumetric flow readings of most thermal springs in Western Canada.  CanGEA’s improvements to past work include verification of and updating all values that are publicly available. The CanGEA project also made use of the data in two geothermometers to estimate reservoir temperatures and heat flow.  Thermal springs for which sufficient data is not currently available have also been identified with the expectation that future surveying and sampling may be conducted to fill knowledge gaps.  Meta data is also available in a spreadsheet format and is expected to be released later in 2015 (included in the cost of the Thermal Springs in Canada report).

Of special interest to the Mining sector, this document includes single sample readings for silica, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, lithium, chlorine, sulphate, and   bicarbonates. A growing international trend is to harvest these valuable commodities via the co-production of geothermal power and heat.