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December 12, 2007 – Vol. 12 No.38 Northern California Power Agency (NCPA), SPG Solar To Power Geothermal Pumping Station With Solar Energy. The 1-megawatt single-axis solar tracking system will provide renewable energy to an existing pump station that supplies the NCPA Geysers Geothermal Energy Plant near Middletown, California. Power from the $8.2 million, 6,300 solar module array will be used pump wastewater into the geysers, which is in turn used to generate renewable geothermal power. The solar plant will supplant electricity from the grid that had been powering the pumps offsetting nearly 800,000 lbs of carbon dioxide. “This unique system shows that solar power can be used for large-scale industrial – or in this case energy generating applications,” said Steve McKenery, SPG Solar Vice President of Commercial Development. “The project is an important breakthrough in the use of solar power on a large scale and should help other industrial energy users understand the potential for solar power.”
The NCPA Geysers Geothermal Plant uses wastewater from Lake County and injects it into the geothermal reservoir. The reservoir converts the wastewater into steam, which is used by geothermal power plants to produce electricity. Currently, about 70 percent of steam produced from by the reservoir is due to wastewater injection. This operation also provides an extremely effective wastewater disposal solution for Clearlake. NCPA is a nonprofit California joint powers agency established in 1968 to generate, transmit, and distribute electric power to and on behalf of its fifteen members. which include communities, a transit agency and utilities. (12/12/07) Links: Northern California Power Agency SPG Solar
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