CTV News – June 29 – “Breakthrough in geothermal energy”
SaskOilReport – May 19 – “The Power of Geothermal power generation”
Deep Earth Energy Production Corp. is developing Canada’s first geothermal power facility with a con- tract to sell power to SaskPower. According to the DEEP website (deepcorp.ca), this project will establish the first geothermal power facility in Canada. DEEP will harness high-quality geothermal resources with existing drilling and power generation technologies to establish a long-term […]
REGINA LEADER POST – Mar 24 – “Sask. geothermal power plant to expand; completion date pushed back”
Kirsten Marcia, President and CEO of Deep Earth Energy Production Corp., speaks at an announcement at the Hotel Saskatchewan in Regina on Nov. 22, 2018. TROY FLEECE files PHOTO BY TROY FLEECE /Regina Leader-Post New test results from a local geothermal company mean it has to push back its expected start date for a power facility in […]
BBC NEWS – Feb 19 – “The search widens for hot rocks that provide power”
Drilling holes into an extinct volcano might sound like an unusual start to an energy project. But that’s what J Michael Palin, a senior lecturer at the University of Otago in New Zealand, is planning to do. His project involves drilling two boreholes to a depth of 500m (1,600ft) and monitoring the rock to see […]
BNN NEWS – Dec 10 – “We learned how to develop sedimentary geothermal resources in Canada: Deep Earth Energy CEO”
Kirsten Marcia, CEO of Deep Earth Energy Production, joins BNN Bloomberg to talk about the future of geothermal power in Western Canada, and the company’s horizontal geothermal well – the first in the world.
CKOM NEWS – Dec 6 – “Saskatoon company makes breakthrough in sustainable power project”
A major breakthrough in Saskatchewan’s energy sector has one company excited to be in hot water. Deep Earth Energy Production has announced completion of the world’s first 90-degree horizontal well aimed at producing geothermal energy. Located near the U.S. border, the well extends 3 1/2 kilometres underground and runs laterally for two kilometres in order […]
FINANCIAL POST – Nov 27 – “Saskatchewan driller hits ‘gusher’ with ground-breaking geothermal well that offers hope for oil workers”
CALGARY — A small, Saskatoon-based company has drilled and fracked the world’s first 90-degree horizontal well for geothermal power in a potentially landmark move that signals the arrival of a new energy source in Canada and provides fresh opportunities for oil and gas workers to apply their skills in renewable power. No company in Canada […]
TORONTO STAR – Nov 24 – “Horizontal, hydraulicly-stimulated geothermal well is “remarkable,” says DEEP CEO”
Torquay, Saskatoon – Saskatchewan geothermal power pioneer Deep Earth Energy Production Corp. (DEEP) has recently hydraulicly stimulated a horizontal geothermal well south of Torquay, something president and CEO Kirsten Marcia says is a global first. “It’s a remarkably good well,” Marcia said by phone from Saskatoon on Nov. 24. The well, Border-5HZ, was hydraulicly stimulated […]
CSB LISTEN – Nov 29 – “Mining for heat – can geothermal be part of Canada’s energy future?”
There is huge potential in Canada to harness heat from deep below the ground for electricity. So why are there only a handful of projects breaking ground? We take a look at the promise of renewable geothermal power and the barriers to getting there. Click here to Play
RADIO CANADA – Nov 8 – “DE L’OR NOIR À L’OR BLEU”
Avec le projet DEEP, le Canada pourrait bientôt avoir sa toute première centrale électrique alimentée par la géothermie.