Exergy took part today at the inauguration ceremony of the Pico Alto 4 MWe geothermal power plant held in the stunning scenery of the Island of Terceira, in the Azores. The plant designed and built by Exergy and the Portuguese company CME for EDA Renováveis, owned by EDA, the Azores power utility company, is now in commercial operation providing green baseload electricity to more than 56,000 inhabitants of Terceira, meeting up to 10% of the island electricity needs..
The 4 MWe binary plant utilizes a high enthalpy geothermal resource, exploiting the heat available both in steam flow and geothermal brine. For this challenging project located in a remote site, in the center of Terceira Island, 1500 Km off the coast of Portugal, the Exergy - CME Consortium supplied a turnkey solution, including the engineering and construction of the gathering systems, the air cooled ORC unit equipped with Exergy Radial Outflow Turbine and all balance of plant equipment.
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