Raser completes commissioning of power generation units for Utah Geothermal Power Plant
Raser Technologies, Inc., announced that it is nearing completion of the commissioning process of the 50 power generation units at its first commercial-scale power plant, in Beaver County, Utah, demonstrating the viability of advanced technology that can make geothermal a major price-competitive resource for this country’s energy supply.
Most of the individual units have been commissioned and placed in service. The power being generated during the commissioning period is being sold to Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacifiCorp, in order to avoid the transmission scheduling issues associated with fluctuating power supply. Final testing of the entire plant and its wells is expected to be completed within the next few weeks at which time the plant’s output is expected to be delivered to Anaheim and local utility sales of testing power will be discontinued.
The Company noted that the Beaver County plant, known as Thermo, was built in only six months using its revolutionary modular construction design, greatly reducing the normal five-to-seven years typically required for traditional plant development and construction technology.
To realize this rapid deployment, Raser uses technology developed by United Technologies Corp. to generate electricity from underground water at temperatures much lower than other technologies. This opens the door to vast resources of underground, heated water that previously were believed to be useless for generating electricity.
“We are progressing nicely through the commissioning process and have begun exporting power to the grid,” said Steven Brown, Executive Vice President of Construction for Raser Technologies. “The commissioning is progressing as planned and is nearly complete with just a few remaining units left to finalize. We plan to have the full plant tested within the next few weeks.”
Source: Raser Technologies Inc.
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