Economic Evaluation of Alternative Strategies of Geothermal Exploitation

Abstract

fair approximation the actual hehaviour of the fields. it possihle simulate the of undrr exploitation Matching the of the field with the energy generated hy alternative of the power the economic of the alternatives have calculated. show that the generally adopted criterion of installing the which guarantees a maximum load for technical life of the plant is not the best from the economic standpoint. In the simulated case. the maximum continuous load for years is YO MW, hut the minimum production cost is achieved with a plant of MW and the maximum total with a plant of MW. In thcsc a decline of production with respect to the installed capacity is predicted during of plant.