Monday, May 20, 2019

USA, Hawaii: Ormat Gives Updates on Puna Geothermal Venture

Video: Puna Geothermal Venture Updates Community (Big Island Video News)

Officials with PGV, Ormat, HELCO, and the County of Hawaiʻi were present for Friday evening's community meeting in Puna.

(14:21 Minutes)

Jordan Hara, PGV plant manager, said that due to the corrosion issues, they have a big job rebuilding generators and everything at the plant. “We probably average of about 40 to 50 contractors on site giving us an hand, from all over the United States. plus we’ve got also hands from our other plants on the mainland helping us out.”

“We’re still assessing the wells and also the resource,” Hara said. “We got bunch of our equipment on site, so that’s ongoing currently. We did start assessing on KS-14 and then we’ll be moving over to the next well.”

Ley also noted that work continues on a risk assessment and vulnerability analysis. “We expected that to be out already, but it’s still taking some time,” ley said. “We’ve got great resource people that have the technical skills and and the scientific background put that together.”

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