Geothermal Power Plants: Worldwide Survey as of July 1981
- Key words
- General; USSR; China; Turkey; California; Imperial Valley; MWe; Summary Update; Geothermal Development
- Location
- USSR; Kamchatka; Pauzhetsky, Russia; China; Turkey
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1981
- Session
- Geothermal overviews; Power plant design and operation
- Language
- English
Abstract
Fourteen countries generate some of their electricity from geothermal energy. The fraction contributed by geothermal energy ranges from a negligible amount to as much as 30% depending on the circumstances in each case. Over 110 individual generating units are currently online with a total installed capacity of more than 2,500,000 kilowatts. The present annual growth rate worldwide is about 15% , a rate is expected to hold for the next 2-3 year.
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