Recovery Act:Rural Cooperative Geothermal development Electric & Agriculture
Surprise Valley Electric, a small rural electric cooperative serving northeast California and southern Oregon, developed a 3mw binary geothermal electric generating plant on a cooperative member's ranch. The geothermal resource had been discovered in 1980 when the ranch was developing supplemental irrigation water wells. The 240°F resource was used for irrigation until developed through this project for generation of electricity. A portion of the spent geothermal fluid is now used for irrigation in season and is available for other purposes, such as greenhouse agriculture, aquaculture and direct heating of community buildings. Surprise Valley Electric describes many of the challenges a small rural electric cooperative encountered and managed to develop a geothermal generating plant.
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- Technical Report
- Research Org:
- Surprise Valley Electrification Corp., Alturas, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Geothermal Technologies Office (EE-4G)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- 15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; 58 GEOSCIENCES Geothermal; electric cooperative; binary power plant
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