🍁Canadian Energy

jibbity

One of the cheapest baseload energy sources is geothermal at roughly $0.04/kwh LCOE. Alberta has 388gw of untapped geothermal potential. So geothermal is their best transition option, especially with their drilling expertise.

Here's a 2013 temperature gradient map for potential wells at 6.5km deep nationwide.

https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2013/rncan-nrcan/M183-2-6914-eng.pdf

jibbity

To understand how massive the electrification transition is, consider this:

USA annual electricity consumption: 4 trillion kilowatt/hours.
USA annual oil consumption: 12.4 trillion kilowatt/hour equivalents. (7.3 billion bbl @ 1700kwh/bbl.)

And 2/3 of all petroleum consumption is for transportation.

So 8 trillion kwh equivalents, or double the current grid capacity could electrify. Electrification is massive. It's literally oil 2.0 in every essence.