Heber Geothermal Demonstration Plant
- Key words
- Power generation; Economics; Imperial Valley; California; USA; Loop; Demonstration; Reservoir engineering; Flow tests
- Location
- Imperial Valley; Heber, California
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1977
- Session
- Power plant design and operation; Economics; Liquid dominate
- Language
- English
Abstract
San Diego Gas & Electric Company's (SDG&E) current geothermal program is a research and development effort directed toward demonstrating the technical and economic feasibility of this new resource. The present program includes the Geothermal Loop Experimental Facility at Niland and a large scale demonstration plant at the Heber Reservoir. the Demonstration Plant at Heber is the topic of this paper. In 1973 SDG&E participated in well flow tests at Heber and in 1974 conducted a series of heat exchanger tests with the Heber fluid. This fluid contains 14,000 ppm and at a temperature of 360°F. These tests at Heber indicated no great difficulties with these fluids.
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