Ukraine:

Direct Use Geothermal Facility to be Built in Western Ukraine (Kyiv Post)

(Courtesy CIA.gov)

Limited liability company Geothermal (Ivano-Frankivsk) plans to realize an investment project on the construction of a geothermal facility in the western Ukraine city of Ivano-Frankivsk to obtain alternative sources of energy for housing and utilities.

"No one was interested in the issue until today in Ukraine. In Ivano-Frankivsk there could be the first experimental facility in Ukraine," Geothermal Director Viktor Shevchuk said at a session of Ivano-Frankivsk city council on September 6, 2012.

He said that on the territory of the city there is a geothermal water layer 3.5 kilometers deep, and its temperature reaches 85-87 centigrade.

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