Attribution: Raser Technologies
Raser Technologies has now entered the power production business as their Thermo plant in Beaver County, Utah comes online. There are three noteworthy aspects of this project:

• Speed. This plant moved from concept to production in 18 months, breaking the land-world speed record for geothermal plant development.
• Resource. This is a low temperature, high flow rate resource unlike most geothermal fields where the resource is usually in excess of 200 C. Such resources have been thought in the past to be non-viable as recently as five years ago.
• Design. Traditionally, geothermal plants are optimized for the specific resource. In this case, 50 UTC units were ganged as a pod to create a net 10MW facility.

While in the past our entries have been somewhat skeptical of Raser’s ability to get plants designed and implemented, we want to provide credit where is due. With the resource showing much larger size than initially scoped at 230MWe of potential, Raser could be a long-term and productive entrant in the geothermal and renewable energy generation field.

Once final commission occurs in the next few weeks, the power generated will be consumed by the City of Anaheim.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 at 9:43 pm and is filed under Geothermal.