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Another geothermalpower plant has been completed in Japan, this time in the town of Oguni in the Aso District of Kumamoto Prefecture. The 5-MW Oguni Machiokoshi geothermalpower plant will soon start supplying the electricity needed by about 8000 households in a rural area theat is well-known for its hot springs.
The 174-MW Tauhara geothermalpower plant by Contact Energy in New Zealand has officially been opened, a culmination of three and a half years of construction and an investment of $924 million. At the full 174-MW capacity, the Tauhara geothermalpower station can supply electricity to 200,000 homes in New Zealand.
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Kyushu Electric Power , thru subsidiary Kyuden Mirai Energy, has announced that it will build a 4990-kW geothermalpower plant in Kirishima City in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Construction will begin by September this year and the power plant is expected to start commercial operations by the end of the 2026 fiscal year.
MW Appi GeothermalPower Plant in the Hachimantai region of Iwate Prefecture, Japan has officially started commercial operations. The construction of the power plant has been underway since August 2019. The power plant uses a single-flash turbine.
The Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) has announced the list of six geothermalpower projects that have been selected for the 2024 Geothermal Resource Survey Subsidy Program. Three of the six projects are new, while the other three are continuation of previously funded ongoing projects.
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PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGEO) has broken ground on the construction of the power plant and Fluid Collection and Reinjection System (FCRS) for the Lumut Balai Unit 2 project in South Sumatra, Indonesia. The 55-MW expansion of the existing power facility is set to operate by the end of 2024.
Kyuden Mirai Energy, a subsidiary of Kyushu Electric Power , will be offering up to 600 million kWh of electricity generated from geothermalpower plants in what will be Japan’s first wholesale geothermalpower auction.
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The budget will support the drilling of new wells , expansion of existing pads and construction of new pads, road networks, pipelines, support structures, and will support development of emerging technologies. hectares, which EDC states is enough to the drilling of new wells and construction of supporting infrastructure.
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PT Geo Dipa Energi (Persero) has published a tender for an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the Patuha Unit 2 geothermalpower plant in Central Java, Indonesia. The construction of the 60-MW Patuha Unit 1 was completed in 2014.
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Power company Mercury , along with representatives from Tauhara No. participated in a groundbreaking ceremony to signal the start of construction of the 50-MW geothermalpower plant at the Nga Tamariki geothermalpower station in New Zealand.
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MW Palayan Bayan binary geothermalpower plant (PBGPP) in the province of Albay in the Philippines. The binary power plant, built at a cost of Php 7 billion (approx. Prior to this , Turboden had been selected as the supplier of the ORC power plant for the project. Puno, Vice Chairman and CEO of EDC.
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The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) recently celebrated the 40th year anniversary of the Tongonan geothermalpower plant in the Leyte geothermal field of the Philippines. After several years of intensive exploration and development work, the Tongonan-1 geothermalpower plant was inaugurated on July 02, 1983.
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The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) recently celebrated the 40th year anniversary of the Palinpinon-1 geothermalpower facility located in the island of Negros in the Philippines. Ordinance No 30 (Series of 2021) applies to “all power generation, transmission and distribution projects” in the province.
Geothermalpower project in Japan supported by JOGMEC (source: JOGMEC) JOGMEC has provided funding support for several geothermalpower projects through the years. Click here to learn more about the JOGMEC Geothermal Resource Survey Subsidy Program.
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New Zealand utility company Contact Energy is currently reevaluating its plans for a new geothermalpower plant in the Wairakei field that sought to replace the aging Wairakei A and B geothermalpower stations that had been operating since 1958. The commissioning process for this project has already started.
The New-Zealand Japan Geothermal Coalition A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between New Zealand’s GNS Science , Geo40 , and Western Energy , and Japan’s Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company (MGC).
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The education center has been completed after two years of construction and investment of nearly 30 million yuan (approx. The Geothermal Education Center is divided into a geothermal exploration exhibition hall and a generator control room. million) from private entities.
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