Raser Technologies Inc. has completed the first commercial geothermal power plant to be built in Utah in more than 20 years. Raser previously announced the discovery of one of the largest geothermal resources in the nation in the past 25 years at the plant site.
Using Raser’s new modular power plant design, major construction for the Thermo project was completed in six months. Most traditional commercial geothermal plants have a five to seven year time frame required for development.
For one of the first times ever in a commercial scale power plant, Raser is utilizing new low temperature technology developed by UTC Power to generate electrical power at the Utah site with zero emissions. Raser connected fifty of the binary cycle units together on site like a computer network to make a 10-megawatt geothermal power plant.
– from renewableenergyworld. 7 Nov 2008