We'll start with Canada. In the electricity industry there are currently zero megawatts of geothermal electricity. That hopefully will change very soon. There is a demonstration project planned for MP Zimmer's area and also for MP Nathan Cullen's area. There are two projects in B.C. that probably will get to electricity in the next couple of years. That would represent the first jobs.
Even though there is zero electricity being produced, there are tens of dozens of jobs that are already in the exploration phase. We talked about having explorationists, drillers, and all the financiers. So as an emerging industry, unfortunately right now in Canada we're still measured at below 1,000 jobs in geothermal.
In America and worldwide there are about 300,000 jobs in geothermal. We're still very niche, although we punch above our weight class in the sense that because we create those sophisticated, quality jobs, we don't have to retrain to be dentists, we can redeploy the geoscientists and geophysicists as well as involve the tradespeople. It's the quality of the jobs.
If we can get some megawatts purchased—both electricity and heat—we will actually start to outpace even the natural gas industry. We are a complete, 100% substitute, but we come with zero carbon footprint. We come with food and other security things that we can address, such as food diversity and the quality jobs. It's emerging, unfortunately, right now.