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Welcome to our page with data for Canada
ELECTRICITY GENERATION
The relatively important high temperature geothermal potential of the country is still untapped. For year 2015, we can estimate the realization of the first plant, the South Meager Creek project, owned by Western GeoPower, where an hydrothermal reservoir at 220-275°C has been assessed through 8 wells.
Taken from Ruggero Bertani’s paper, " Geothermal Power Generation in the World 2005–2010 Update Report ", published in Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2010, Bali, Indonesia, 25-29 April 2010.
DIRECT USES
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Total thermal installed capacity in MWt:
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1,126
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Direct use in TJ/year
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8,873
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Direct use in GWh/year
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2,464.9 |
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Capacity factor
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0.25
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In recent years Canada has steadily embraced heat pump technology. It is estimated that up to 50,000 residential and 5,000 commercial systems are currently installed (Thompson, 2010). The cost of installing these units, especially in building retrofits, is often prohibited for the average consumer; however, federal and local subsidies have lightened the financial burden. The growth rate is estimated at 13% per year, with recent rates being as high as 50%.
Heat pump technology has also been used in abandon mines, starting as early as 1989 in the Springhill Mine of Nova Scotia where the heating and cooling provides savings estimated C$45,000/yr in energy costs. The City of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories commissioned a study in 2007 to use water from an abandoned gold mine with a heat pump to provide district heating to the community, saving an estimated C$13 million/yr.
There are also 12 western hot springs used to heat swimming pools with individual flow rate of 6-32 l/s and total installed capacity of 10-15 MWt (Lund et al., 2005). Since, no specific data were available on the various Canadian geothermal uses, we estimate the following for heat pumps using a COP in the heating mode of 3.5, 3,000 full load heating hours per year, an average residential size of 12 kW, and commercial size of 100 kW,
resulting in a total of 1,100 MWt and 8,487 TJ/yr.
For the mine water the estimate is 11 MWt and 26 TJ/yr (Jessop, 1995),
and for the 12 western swimming pool, 15 MWt and 360 TJ/yr.
This gives a total of 1,126 MWt and 8,873 TJ/yr.
Taken from the paper by John W. Lund, Derek H. Freeston, and Tonya L. Boyd: "Direct Utilization of Geothermal Energy 2010 Worldwide Review"; published in Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2010, Bali, Indonesia, 25-29 April 2010
