The Using of Geothermal Energy in the Deep Sedimentary Basins in the USSR

Abstract

Geothermal energetics in the USSR is a young branch of science and economy. The industrial exploitation of the depth heat was begun in the USSR in 1966 with the establishing of the Caucasian (in Makhachkala) and the Kamchatka (in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski) Departments for using the depth heat of the Earth and with the putting unto operation of tbe Pauzhet Heat Power Plant of 11 MW in the same 1966. In the 1961 the Paratun Gesthermal Heatpower Plant working on thermal water having t eraturea 80 C was put into operation.It used freon 12 as a low-boiling wo body.