Geothermal Energy’s Unparalleled Benefits

The Global GeothermalEnergy Industry Is Hot

• $19 billion invested from 2010 to 2014

• In the US, annual power sales ~$1 billion as of 2012

• International production growing at >5% CAGR

• 24 countries produce geopower including

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• Create 11 times more permanent jobs than Site C.

• Avoid costly transmission upgrades through strategic deployment of geothermal power plants.

• Strengthen the grid – as geothermal has a 95% load factor, it is dispatchable, and can load follow and provide necessary ancillary services.

• Avoid unnecessary large capital project cost overruns, as geothermal power plants are small, and can be built to directly meet demand.

• Reduce negative environmental impacts – geothermal power plants have the lowest physical and environmental footprint of all alternatives.

• Produce highly valuable heat, as a byproduct or independently, which can be used for:

• Fruit and vegetable cultivation

• Tourism

• Lumber Drying

• Food availability and price security can be delivered for more remote communities through geothermal greenhouse operations.

• Extraction of difficult to obtain minerals, rare earth and near earth elements from geothermal brines.

• “Green” oil & gas operations by reducing the carbon footprint of their energy supply.

• Offer a real renewable option – large-scale hydro is NOT considered (by the world community) to be renewable or green.