Remote Alberta town to become first in Canada powered by geothermal energy
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A remote town located in the northwest corner of Alberta could soon be the first in Canada to heat and power the community using geothermal.
A remote town located in the northwest corner of Alberta could soon be the first in Canada to heat and power the community using geothermal.
"Rainbow Lake, especially at low depths, was identified as an area where unlike anywhere else in the province, we have the potential for power generation and other downstream activity that geothermal allows," said Dan Fletcher, the town's chief administrative officer.
The Town of Rainbow Lake has partnered with E2E Energy Solutions for the project.
"It's a big undertaking for sure," said Domenico Daprocida, President and CEO of E2E Energy Solutions. “Even being a small community it does make it a little bit more manageable but it’s quite an undertaking to produce heat and power for an entire community and deliver it to residents," he added.
Conventional geothermal taps into subterranean aquifers that are hot enough to produce power which Daprocida said are typically located in volcanic regions close to faults like California and Iceland.
"Conventional geothermal’s great, it's the most economic but in the other regions it doesn't work," he said.
That's where his company’s new patent-pending technology, the Enhanced Geothermal Reservoir Recovery System (EGRRS) comes in.
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