Big NZ Geothermal Plant Kicks Into Gear (Earth Techling)
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The Ngatamariki plant during construction
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Ormat has completed the largest geothermal power plant of its type ever, in New Zealand, bringing online the Ngatamariki plant – variously characterized as 82 MWe and 100 MWe — for Mighty River Power.
The plant is expected to produce close to 700 gigawatt-hours of electricity.
Equivalent to:
- 318 MW solar PV plant operating at 25 percent capacity factor, or
- 228 MW wind farm operating at 35 percent capacity (typical figures for such utility-scale plants) would turn out in a year.
And, of course, it has the big advantage that geothermal offers: It isn’t intermittent. It’s 24-hour-a-day.
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