Ormat Technologies, Inc., the parent company of Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV), has painted a picture of the facilities efforts to resume power production following the eruption of Kīlauea Volcano.
The report breaks down the work that has already been done, saying that an access road to the site has been completed, and workover rigs have been mobilized from the mainland to Hawaii. A new fresh water well has also been drilled.
Now, PGV is working on “removing the plugs from the production wells”, put in place during the eruption to prevent a blowout from lava inundation, and “mobilizing a large rig to the island to enable drilling additional wells if required.”
“Operation of Puna power plant by the end of 2019, is subject to successful results we receive from the geothermal wells and from the plant equipment,” the report notes.