Geothermal Development in Russia: Country Update Report 1995-1999

Abstract

Since the last World Geothermal Congress (Florence, 1995), geothermal energy use in Russia has continues on a similar scale, dominated as before by direct use. Six towns and a number of settlements in the Northern Caucasus and Kamchatka with a total population of about 220,000 use geothermal energy for space and district heating. Geothermal energy is also utilized in several greenhouses with total area of 465 000 m2 in the same regions. The installed thermal power of direct heat use is about 300 MW. Electric geothermal power is generated at Kamchatka where the Pauzhetka power plant (11 MW) has been joined buy the new Verkhne-Mutnovka plant (12 MW) on the Severo-Mutnovka thermal field. Two other units of 50 MW in total are under construction on the Dacha sector of the same Servero-Mutnovka hydrothermal system. In the future, the total power of this plant is planned to be to 300 MW. In the project stage is a 30MW Okeanskaya power station on Iturup Island in the Kuril Archipelago.