The Canadian Geothermal Heat Pump Industry
Roadmap is a national industry-wide exercise led by
the Canadian GeoExchange Coalition (CGC). Sophie
Martin, assisted by Liane Coulahan, coordinated the
roadmap planning processes and facilitated the
extensive work of industry stakeholders, analyzed
their input and prepared all the interim reports used
in the preparation of this final roadmap document.
The roadmap exercise was overseen by the
Geothermal Industry Roadmap Steering Committee
whose members provided important guidance
throughout the planning process as well as important
reviews and feedback.

CGC would like to thank the participants of the CGCled
roadmap workshops held from March-August
2011 and the members of the roadmap subcommittees
and working groups for their time and expertise. CGC would also like to thank the Steering Committee for providing review comments on the final reports. The documents attempt to represent the views of the roadmap participants and of the Steering Committee members fairly, with background information taken from various consultations conducted by the CGC over the years.

After many years of sustained growth, the Canadian geothermal heat pump industry experienced a significant set-back in 2010 with an estimated decline of roughly 28%. Early estimates tend to show that the markets re-bounded and stabilized in 2011 for Canada as a whole.

Together, Ontario, Québec and British Columbia represented about 87% of the GHP market in 2010 compared to 76% in 2007.

Manitoba is the only Canadian province which experienced annual market decline in each of 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. In fact, the market for GHP crashed by 64% between 2007 and 2010, by far the worst performance of all Canadian provinces.