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| Stillwater hybrid CSP-geothermal power plant |
Enel Green Power (EGP) has started a collaboration program with the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Idaho National Laboratory (IDN) to further explore the potential of EGP's Stillwater hybrid CSP-geothermal power plant.
The parties will jointly explore and quantify the benefits of integrating different renewable energy technologies at the same site and paves the way for further innovation into next-generation geothermal facilities.
The three parties have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) under the oversight of the U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO).
The 2 MW Stillwater Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Project is currently under construction in Fallon, Nevada and, upon completion, it will operate alongside the existing 33 MW Stillwater geothermal power plant, which is already paired with a 26 MW photovoltaic facility. This is the first hybrid plant in the world able to bring together at the same site the continuous generating capacity of binary-cycle, medium-enthalpy geothermal power with solar photovoltaic and solar thermodynamic.
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