A resource that in the oil and gas industry would be considered an expense can now be considered a commodity which can make geothermal power.
DEEP Earth Energy Production Corp. expects to mine extremely hot brine water over 3-and-a-half kilometres underground in southeast Saskatchewan.
It will be the first geothermal power plant in the country.

President and CEO Kirsten Marcia says they wouldn’t have even known the water was there had the oil and gas industry not drilled into it.  The brine would be used in the process to turn turbines, which generates power.
Much of the mining equipment is similar to the oil industry as well, so it’s an easy switch for oil and gas workers.

Marcia says construction will begin on the power equipment this fall, which will then be interconnected to the province’s main power grid. It’s expected to be supplying power by the first half of 2023. Marcia estimates the geothermal power plant will provide about 100 megawatts of baseload power generation for the province.

Every megawatt is equivalent to the power needed for a thousand households.
DEEP’s CEO explains that the brine is brought to the surface and the heat is used to run turbines and then the water is deposited back underground, so it’s a resource that never runs out.  It has no carbon dioxide emissions and has the smallest environmental footprint of all of the renewable resources.
Marcia notes that unlike wind and solar, it’s not intermittent.