Ormat Technologies' Casa Diablo IV Geothermal Energy Project would draw 29,000 acre-feet of extremely hot water per year from deep within the rock layers of the tectonically active region, using up to 16 newly drilled wells.īut that geothermally heated aquifer lies beneath the cold water aquifer from which Mammoth Lakes draws its drinking water, and locals are worried that the Ormat's pumping could draw down the cold water aquifer: a troubling prospect in this drought as locals become increasingly dependent on groundwater. Forest Service has the town of Mammoth Lakes worried about its drinking water supply. subsidiary.Natural hot springs in the Mammoth Lakes area hint at the region's geothermal potential | Photo: clickfarmer/Flickr/ Creative Commons LicenseĪ 33-megawatt geothermal power plant approved in August by the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Ormat expanded its operations to provide energy storage and energy management solutions, by leveraging its core capabilities and global presence as well as through its Viridity Energy Solutions Inc. Ormat’s current 917 MW generating portfolio is spread globally in the U.S., Kenya, Guatemala, Indonesia, Honduras, and Guadeloupe. The Company has engineered, manufactured and constructed power plants, which it currently owns or has installed to utilities and developers worldwide, totaling over 2,900 MW of gross capacity. Ormat’s flexible, modular solutions for geothermal power and REG are ideal for vast range of resource characteristics. Ormat has 584 employees in the United States and 762 overseas. patents, Ormat’s power solutions have been refined and perfected under the most grueling environmental conditions. The Company owns, operates, designs, manufactures and sells geothermal and REG power plants primarily based on the Ormat Energy Converter – a power generation unit that converts low-, medium- and high-temperature heat into electricity. is a leading geothermal company and the only vertically integrated company engaged in geothermal and recovered energy generation (“REG”), with the objective of becoming a leading global provider of renewable energy. With over five decades of experience, Ormat Technologies, Inc. 21-07 (Emergency Forest Closure) pursuant to 36 C.F.R § 261.50(e)(3) Persons with a Forest Service special use authorization for an electric transmission line, an oil, or gas pipeline, communications site, or any other non-recreational special use. This work is exempted from Regional Order No. It will be the first geothermal power plant built within the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) balancing authority in the last 30 years and will be the first in Ormat’s portfolio to sell its output to a Community Choice Aggregator. The CD4 power plant is expected to be on-line in early 2022. Mammoth Pacific Geothermal currently employs 25 full-time people and expects to bring on additional employees as a result of the CD4 project. It’s estimated that the project will bring over $13 million to the region and will create more than 180 construction jobs. The state-of-the-art project is expected to provide 30MW of electricity for 22,000 homes while offsetting 4 million tons of CO2. Ormat is authorized by the US Forest Service to continue work through the recent California National Forest closure. The public is advised to be aware of heavy equipment and remain outside of marked areas. Highway 395, and installing pipelines that connect the wells to the power plant.Ĭonstruction vehicles and heavy equipment will be present and operating in the area throughout the construction period. Upcoming activities include drilling new geothermal wells at two sites near Shady Rest, building a new power plant east of U.S. We had previously reported on flow and injection tests done by Ormat on two existing geothermal wells in the project. In a press release, Ormat Technologies through Mammoth Pacific Geothermal announced that construction work for the Casa Diablo IV (CD-4) geothermal project in Mammoth Lakes, California has started.
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