Shallow geothermal potential mapping of the northern community of Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik, Nunavik, Canada

魁北克省所有北方离网社区目前都依赖化石燃料发电和供热。通过采用清洁和可再生的解决办法，例如地热技术，可以降低环境、社会和财政成本，其可靠性已在南方得到证明。在北方，这种新能源的深刻变化需要更好地了解偏远社区地下的热状态和性质，因为那里很难获得数据。CIMA+是一家在不同市场拥有长期经验的加拿大工程公司，它建议通过低焓地热技术来解决这一问题，以覆盖建筑物的空间供暖和生活热水，例如地源热泵（GSHP）和地下热能储存（UTES）。鉴于它在北方的强大影响力，并向安大略和魁北克的一些土著人民，如克里人和因纽特人提供服务，将与国家遥感研究所建立伙伴关系。Raymond教授的团队在过去的三年里一直致力于证明GSHP和UTES在努纳维克的可行性。因此，该项目的目标是绘制通过GSHP可以从Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik村下面的地面可持续提取的热量以及可以用UTES系统存储供以后使用的能量的数量。最近开发的G.POT方法和一种新方法STOREmap将用于实现这些目标，并确保将向CIMA+提供尖端的地热能工具，作为合作伙伴关系赠款的成功结果。

All the northern off-grid communities of Québec currently rely on fossil fuels to produce both electricity and heat. Environmental, social and financial costs can be reduced by the deployment of clean and renewable solutions, such as geothermal technologies whose reliability has already been demonstrated down south. A profound change toward such a new source of energy in the North requires to better understand the thermal state and properties of the underground in remote communities, where data is difficultly available. CIMA+, which is a Canadian engineering firm with long lasting experience in different markets, proposes to tackle this problem looking at low enthalpy geothermal technologies for covering space heating and domestic hot water of buildings, such as ground source heat pumps (GSHP) and underground thermal energy storage (UTES). Given its strong presence in the North, with services provided to a number of autochthonous peoples in Ontario and Québec, such as Cree and Inuit, a partnership will be started with INRS. Prof. Raymond's team has been working to demonstrate the viability of GSHP and UTES in Nunavik for the last three years. Hence, the goal of the project is to map the amount of heat that can be sustainably extracted from the ground below the village of Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik by means of GSHP and the volume of energy that can be stored with UTES systems for a later use. The recently developed G.POT method and a novel approach STOREmap will be applied to achieve these targets and ensure that cutting-edge geothermal energy tools will be provided to CIMA+ as a successful result of the partnership grant.****