{"id":67244,"date":"2025-11-14T11:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energi.media\/?p=67244"},"modified":"2025-11-14T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:58:03","slug":"canadas-geothermal-opportunity-is-bigger-than-we-think-so-why-is-ottawa-ignoring-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energi.media\/markham-on-energy\/canadas-geothermal-opportunity-is-bigger-than-we-think-so-why-is-ottawa-ignoring-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Geothermal Opportunity Is Bigger Than We Think \u2014 So Why Is Ottawa Ignoring It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada doesn’t need to invent the advanced geothermal industry. It’s already a global leader. We just need to scale it. And quickly<\/h2>\n

Canada is sitting on a world-class opportunity to build a world-scale advanced geothermal industry<\/a>, yet the federal government\u2019s climate competitiveness strategy barely acknowledges it. That silence isn\u2019t just puzzling, it\u2019s risky. Because if we\u2019re serious about electrification, industrial heat decarbonization, energy security, and creating new clean energy industrial opportunities, then advanced geothermal isn\u2019t optional. It\u2019s indispensable.<\/p>\n

And the irony is this: Canada already has everything it needs to lead.<\/strong> We just haven\u2019t decided to act like it.<\/p>\n

The interviews (here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>) underlying this column offer a clear picture. Start with the basics: the new generation of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) is nothing like the \u201cIceland model\u201d of tapping naturally occurring hot-water reservoirs. As geoscientist Gord Brasnett, the co-author of the Cascade Institute report The Deep Heat Advantage: A techno-economic analysis of Enhanced Geothermal Systems in western and northwestern Canada<\/span><\/i><\/a>, explained, Canada\u2019s geology isn\u2019t blessed with those \u201cgeologic unicorn\u201d hotspots where heat and water sit conveniently near the surface.<\/p>\n

Instead, our opportunity lies deeper \u2014 literally. EGS drills several kilometres down, engineers a fracture network between two wells, and circulates water through hot rock to recover that heat. It\u2019s modern, modular, and powered by technologies developed in Canada\u2019s own oil and gas sector. In other words, we are already experts at the hardest part of geothermal: drilling deep, hot, technically complex wells<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s engineering capability is so strong that Canadians are already doing this work internationally. \u201cWe have folks doing insulated drill pipe in deep volcanoes in Oregon,\u201d Brasnett explained, \u201cand Canadians deploying drilling expertise in Germany.” Our people are helping build the geothermal future \u2014 just not here.<\/p>\n

Why not? Partly because we lack the policy framework to bring them home. The European Union gave Ever Technologies a \u20ac90-million grant to build its first closed-loop commercial project south of Munich, supported by Germany\u2019s \u20ac251\/MWh feed-in tariff. That\u2019s industrial policy. That\u2019s how new clean-energy sectors are built.<\/p>\n

By contrast, Canada\u2019s 2025 federal budget \u2014 marketed as a \u201cclimate competitiveness strategy\u201d \u2014 barely mentioned geothermal at all. As Brasnett said, geothermal remains \u201coverlooked,\u201d both because it is literally underground and because Canada has not yet deployed commercial-scale projects that would put it on Ottawa\u2019s radar. But that invisibility has consequences. Without a strategic signal from government, capital, talent, and supply chains drift elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Canada is uniquely suited to scale this industry<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Alberta, in particular, has the deepest bench of drilling, reservoir engineering, geoscience, and oilfield manufacturing expertise in the country. \u201cEighty-five percent of the skills from the oil and gas sector transfer to geothermal,\u201d Basnett noted, citing International Energy Agency estimates<\/a>. Alberta has more engineers per capita than anywhere else in Canada, and its industrial parks \u2014 Calgary\u2019s Foothills, Edmonton\u2019s sprawling fabrication corridors \u2014 already manufacture rigs, drilling assemblies, subsurface tools, and sensors perfectly suited to geothermal applications.<\/p>\n

This is not a workforce that needs reinvention. It needs redeployment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The technology fit is equally strong. Much of the innovation that advanced geothermal now relies on \u2014 insulated drill pipe, high-temperature electronics, durable casing, cementing techniques \u2014 was pioneered in the oil sands decades ago and proven at commercial scale. Canada is already exporting these tools and techniques to the United States, Germany, and elsewhere. \u201cThese are made-in-Canada solutions\u2026 deployed worldwide,\u201d Gord said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great story we don\u2019t tell loudly enough\u201d.<\/p>\n

And the economics are compelling. With deeper plays targeting hotter rock, the efficiency gains more than offset the higher drilling costs. Gord\u2019s modelling shows advanced geothermal achieving levelized costs below $50 per megawatt-hour.<\/strong> That’s competitive with gas and with solar-plus-storage. For clean, firm, dispatchable power, that price is extraordinary.<\/p>\n

Even more compelling is the global opportunity. Dozens of countries share Canada\u2019s geology: deep, hot, dry rock, but no natural hydrothermal reservoirs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are far more places that look geologically like Canada than like Iceland,\u201d Brasnett emphasized. If we can prove out deep EGS here, it becomes a \u201cturnkey capability\u201d exportable to Australia, central Europe, Africa, and beyond. In a world desperate for clean baseload power, especially with electrification and data centre demand spiking, that capability is priceless.<\/p>\n

So why isn\u2019t geothermal a pillar of Canada\u2019s climate competitiveness strategy?<\/p>\n

Partly, as Brasnett carefully noted, because Canada has a habit of \u201cspreading too little butter over too much toast,\u201d avoiding bold bets in favour of lukewarm, incremental efforts. Meanwhile, China is filing \u201cunbelievable numbers of patents\u201d in subsurface technology while the United States has spent a decade running the Utah FORGE living lab to de-risk deep geothermal through coordinated research, drilling, and reservoir engineering.<\/p>\n

Canada has done none of that.<\/p>\n

Yet nothing prevents us from starting now. The regulatory barriers have largely been resolved; Alberta and BC now have geothermal resource development acts in place, eliminating past ambiguity about rights and permitting. The supply chain exists. The workforce exists. The technology exists. The economics are lining up.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s missing is the strategic decision to treat advanced geothermal the way Europe treated wind or China treated solar and batteries \u2014 as a national growth pole with backward linkages, forward linkages, and technology linkages that drive prosperity across entire supply chains.<\/p>\n

Canada has a once-in-a-generation chance to lead in a sector perfectly aligned with its strengths. If we continue to ignore it, others will not.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need to invent this industry. We just need to build it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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