suchandra Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 Green energy wherever you look at, why did it take them so long? This newly constructed powerplant at Alsace/France supplies a village with 1600 people with all required energy and takes the heat from 3100 miles depth where the temperature is constanly 396 degrees Fahrenheit. Since it is a model example it also has a director general. A new deep geothermal energy project in Alsace http://www.europeanenergyforum.eu/archives/european-energy-forum/letters-from-the-publisher/a-new-deep-geothermal-energy-project-in-alsace The company Roquette et Electricité de Strasbourg, which is a subsidiary of our associate member Electricité de France, have just signed a partnership agreement to carry out a feasibility study for a project aimed at supplying steam from geothermal boreholes to a plant in Beinheim. As in the case of the Soultz-sous-Forêts project, the new project would be located in an area of geological subsidence which is particularly suited to the extraction of geothermal heat. As a reminder, at the Soultz-sous-Forêts, 50 km north of Strasbourg, the cold water injected into a number of boreholes drilled to a depth of 5,000 metres resurfaces at a temperature above 200 °C without any appreciable drop in flow rate. Subject to the findings of the feasibility study, the drilling of an exploratory, 5-km deep borehole in 2006 will be followed by more drilling in 2007 to complete an industrial installation. It is planned that the system will become operational in 2008. This is the first initiative aimed at developing a functioning industrial facility from the Soultz-sous-Forêts research and demonstration programme, which has received varying amounts of financial support from the European Union on a regular basis since 1987. For its part, on the initiative of SOCOMINE (the comApany that was in charge of the Soultz-sous-Forêts project before the creation of the European Economic Interest Grouping “Exploitation Minière de la Chaleur”), on 12 May 1998 the European Energy Forum organised a “European Day of Geothermal Energy” in association with the Committee on Science and Technology of the Council of Europe. Concluding the event, a dinner debate was held on the theme “European Hot Dry Rock: Assessments and Prospects for Exploiting the Energy Potential of Hot Dry Rock ”. On 25 June 1999, a visit made to the Soultz-sous-Forêts project – also in association with the above-mentioned committee – marked the end of SOCOMINE’s initiative. We were able to learn more about geothermal energy during two delegation visits we made to Iceland in October 2001 and May 2005 at the invitation of the Minister for Industry and Trade. In fact, geothermal energy is widely used in Iceland owing to the favourable local geological conditions, which do not require the drilling of such deep boreholes as in Alsace. Geothermal energy is used for domestic heating and power generation, and covers a proportion of the energy needs of industry, agriculture and even fishing. We shall follow the development of the Beinheim project with interest. <table summary="" width="300" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td></td> <td>Jean-Claude Charrault Director General</td></tr></tbody></table> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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