Wednesday, April 10, 2013

USA, Nevada:

Ormat Achieves EGS Enhancement at Brady Geothermal Plant (News Release - Sacramento Bee)

DOE, Ormat and GeothermEx Collaboration Produces Electricity Using In-field EGS -  First U.S. EGS Project to be Connected to the Electricity Grid. 

Ormat's Desert Peak 2 geothermal power
plant (Courtesy Ormat)
Ormat Technologies, Inc., the U.S. Department of Energy and GeothermEx successfully produced 1.7 additional megawatts from an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) project inside an existing wellfield in the U.S.

This is the first EGS project to be connected to the electricity grid. Using innovative subsurface technologies, research and development teams stimulated an existing sub-commercial injection well resulting in a 38 percent increase in power output from brine at Ormat's Desert Peak 2 geothermal power plant in the Brady complex, Churchill County, Nevada, USA.

Support for the project included $5.4 million in direct DOE funding, $2.6 in million investment from Ormat, and more than four years of collaborative work with partners including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, Sandia National Laboratory, University of Utah EGI, Temple University and TerraTek.

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