Taupo, New Zealand: Direct Use of a Low Temperature Resource
- Key words
- low temperature reservoir, downhole heat exchangers, space heating, regulations
- Location
- Taupo, New Zealand
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 1995
- Session
- SECTION 3 ? Geothermal Energy in the National Energy Policy
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 1-morris
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Abstract
This paper reviews the development and future of the hot groundwater resource in Taupo. A significant proportion of the township is underlain by hot groundwater There is also a very shallow, very low pressure steam resource Some commercial premises, motels and several hundred households use the resource. Most households use very low output downhole heat exchangers in shallow groundwater bores. Relatively low temperatures that are declining, poor permeability, and new government regulations discourage much further development of this shallow geothermal resource.
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