USA, California: Designs for 20 MW Non-Hydro Geothermal Power Plant Project Almost Complete

GeoGenCo's Zero Water Geothermal Technology Helps Imperial Irrigation District Achieve Green Energy Goals (News Release)

Mud Volcanoes at the Davis-Schrimpf Seep
Field with the John L. Featherstone geothermal
power plant in the background.
GRC Fieldtrip  2013.

GeoGenCo, LLC of Las Vegas, Nevada, has completed their semi-final designs for their next generation True Geothermal 20 MW power plant in Imperial Valley, CA. GeoGenCo has a 15 MW Power Purchase Agreement with Imperial Irrigation District (IID) and expects to be providing power by June of 2020.

True Geothermal does not utilize any water in their power generation process. Rather than extracting the geothermal fluids, a high-performance heat exchanger is inserted into an existing (but non-performing) geothermal well where only heat is extracted from the geothermal formation, not from water, brine or steam. While a permit application for approximately six acre-feet of water has been filed, about one third of this water will be utilized for dust control and the other two thirds reserved for emergency fire-fighting purposes. Zero water will be utilized for the power generation process.

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From the Global Geothermal News archives:

• Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - USA, California: 20 MW Non-Hydro Geothermal Power Plant Project Moves On

A GRC Fieldtrip will visit the Imperial Valley on September 18-19 from the GRC Annual Meeting & Expo in Palm Springs, California.