Recovery Act:Rural Cooperative Geothermal development Electric & Agriculture

Culp, Elzie Lynn¹ 

[1] Surprise Valley Electrification Corp., Alturas, CA (United States)

关键词: Geothermal;    electric cooperative;    binary power plant;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1234533
RP-ID  :  DOE-SVEC_03006
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1234533

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

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.