Yeah geothermal is amazing here for heating and cooling but not quite hot enough for “standard” geothermal power generation. There is an experimental pilot proj

Yeah geothermal is amazing here for heating and cooling but not quite hot enough for “standard” geothermal power generation. There is an experimental pilot project happening in the south of the province where they think they may have found a technique that might work for power but it is so far unproven and the first plant is targeting only 5MW. 100% it is the way to go for carbon-free heating and cooling here. For new rural builds it’s even cost competitive. A friend of mine recently built a house and getting a gas line installed was going to cost $40k. Installing geothermal came in below that and with a COP of 4 it ends up coming out marginally cheaper on a monthly basis (1kWh of electricity costs approximately the same as 3kWh of natural gas heating here). He has resistive heating backup but I think it has only kicked in once or twice over 5 years. And yeah, definitely not scalable for everyone to just split a hobby-grown cow with their whole family. It sure is nice for us though!