Present status of the Ogachi HDR Project, Japan, and future plans

✍ Scribed by Yoshinao Hori; Koichi Kitano; Hideshi Kaieda; Kenzo Kiho

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 167 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-6505
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-6505(99)00034-6

✦ Synopsis

CRIEPI initiated the Ogachi project in the northern part of Japan in 1986, to determine the feasibility of an HDR geothermal power plant based on a multi-layer reservoir. During the past eleven years technologies have been developed for surveying underground resources, forming multi-layer reservoirs and evaluating these reservoirs in a 1.4 billion yen study. Future plans include the development of a lifespan evaluation method, the improvement of production rates and ®nally, the establishment of an actual HDR power plant.