Geothermal Canada AGM 2020- Board of Directors and Minutes

Geothermal Canada held its AGM 2020 on June 24 over Zoom. The meeting minutes are available below.

We are pleased to announce our Board of Directors for 2020-2021. At this time, we would like to sincerely thank Grant Ferguson and Ryan Dick for their contributions to the board since Geothermal Canada was resurrected in 2017. The Board of Directors for 2020-2021 is as follows:

President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer are elected for 2 year terms. All other Board positions are elected for 1 year terms.

Meeting Minutes from Geothermal Canada's Annual General Meeting on June 24, 2020

GLOBE Series: Upcoming Events and Virtual Event Recordings

Webinar:  Innovation Pathways and Transition Finance Towards Future-Fit Hydrocarbons

Last week's GLOBE Virtual webinar, co-hosted by the Energy Futures Lab and The Delphi Group, built on the GLOBE Advance session on future-fit hydrocarbons at GLOBE 2020 and explored the conversation around energy transformation in Canada. The full webinar recording is available.

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Upcoming Events

Cleantech Connect: Key Learnings and Advice from Young Founders

Date: July 9, 2020
Time: 2:00-3:00pm PT, 5:00-6:00pm ET

GLOBE Virtual in partnership with Leading Change will host this webinar targeted to students, recent graduates, and young people who are active in the cleantech space or are looking to learn more about the sector.

In Conversation with The Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities & Michael Sabia, Chair of the Board of Canada Infrastructure Bank

Date: July 16, 2020
Time: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET

Speakers:

• The Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, Government of Canada

• Michael Sabia, Chair of the Board of Canada Infrastructure Bank

Chair/Moderator:

• Jennifer Keesmaat, CEO, The Keesmaat Group and Former Chief City Planner, City of Toronto

More information coming soon!

GRC 2020 Annual Meeting Will be Virtual

This year, the GRC annual conference will be held as the GRC Virtual Annual Meeting and Expo. Please see below for the announcement from the GRC. Also, please note that final paper revisions are due on July 10, 2020.

“As GRC continues to trailblaze, modernize and revitalize our place within the geothermal industry, it is with great excitement that we announce an all-new, fully-virtual experience for GRC’s 2020 Annual Meeting & Expo. The meeting will take place October 18 – 23, 2020 in an online and on-demand format that brings together people from all aspects of the geothermal industry.

This new virtual platform will allow attendees from around the globe to access the meeting’s program of activities and content, and network with other attendees and companies online from their home or office. Combined with our other activities that will all go digital including the Opening Reception, Plenary Session, Panel Sessions, Fieldtrips (yes!), Workshops, Networking Reception and Expo, this year's Technical Program contains a wide array of technical papers that will also be presented in a virtual format.

Advantages of a virtual meeting include:

• all content available to an attendee – no missing of presentations in parallel sessions or from scheduling conflicts;

• content available 24/7 – giving accessibility around the globe in all time zones;

• Expo Hall accessible to people who would not normally be able to drop in – like your CEO or a hard-to-pin-down customer;

• no travel needed – access the meeting from your home or office and save on travel costs and exhibition infrastructure expenses;

• a schedule not restricted to three days – live sessions and Q&A will be conveniently spread out over six days; and,

• recorded content available to registered attendees – access recorded presentaitons for months after the live event.”

Putting Rigs Back to Work: Article from The Hitch

The Geothermal Collaboration Network is a group formed by industry partners with the goal of putting oil and gas workers back to work within the geothermal industry. The Hitch’s article “Putting Rigs Back to Work” describes how this can be done.

According to Dr. Catherine Hickson of Geothermal Canada, Alberta has significant areas where temperatures are high enough to extract heat for direct-use applications and, in some locations, power production. Hickson said direct-use geothermal applications could include space heating, heating a green house, or providing the energy needed for industrial processes. The main difference between an oil well and a geothermal well, is that a geothermal well has a much larger diameter than a typical oil or gas well, said Hickson. The large diameter is required to accommodate the large electrical submersible pumps required to lift the large quantities to hot brine to the surface. A geothermal well is also constructed to last decades.