Repowering of the Cove Fort Power Plant
- Key words
- Power plant repowering; binary; custom engineering; ORC
- Location
- Cove Fort, Utah
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 2013
- Session
- Power plant design and operation; Binary cycle power generat
- Language
- English
Abstract
Exploration of the Cove Fort geothermal resource began in the 1970s with generation of electricity from 1985 to 2003. The original power plant consisted of Ormat Energy Converters (OEC), a topping turbine and a condensing steam turbine totaling just over 10 MW. Enel Green Power acquired the project rights in 2007. The resource characteristics were evaluated for repowering the power plant and several alternatives were considered in order to maximize the owner?s return on investment (ROI). Namely, the design objective was to maximize generation output given the resource data. Ormat did not propose an off-the-shelf pre-engineered unit, rather it analyzed the resource, carried out various custom engineering alternative schemes for the resource and chose the most efficient option.
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