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Geothermal project at Draskovec, Croatia aims operational start by mid-2018

Geothermal project at Draskovec, Croatia aims operational start by mid-2018 Drilling site on Draskovec geothermal project, Croatia (source: AAT Geothermae)
Alexander Richter 31 Aug 2017

The geothermal project at Draskovec, Croatia is planning a start of operation by mid-2018 if everything goes according to plan with an initial capacity of 3.2 MW electric and 10 MW thermal.

As reported locally, the first phase of the geothermal plant being developed in Draskovec near Prelog in Medimurje is expecting to be operation by mid-2018. The project is located at the Northern tip of Croatia about 110 km north of the country’s capital Zagreb and right at the border to Hungary. We previously reported about the project.

The project is being developed by Swiss investment fund CloZEd Loop Energy and its Croatian company AAT Geothermae with an estimated investment cost of EUR 75 million ($90 million). The project has secured EUR 14.7 million ($17.6 million) from the Croatian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy, co-financed by the European Commission’s NER 300 program for the most innovative technological solutions in the fight against climate change.

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The project plans to install one of the most innovative geothermal power plants. The project is drilling to depths of 1,800 to 2,300 meters and utilise binary-cycle geothermal power plant technology.
In 2014, the project went through an extensive due diligence process by the European Investment Bank.

The first phase of project development started in the second half of 2015 and much of civil works and have been finished since then and equipment is being prepared for delivery to the site.

If operational as planned, the plant could produce 3.6 MW and about 10 MW thermal by mid 2018.

The project will then immediately continue with Phase 2 of the project and by the end of 2018 could produce 7.2 MW of electricity and 24 MW thermal.

The overall plan for the project is to have an installed power generation capacity of 18.6 MW and 60 MW thermal energy by mid-2019.

When ready, the project will deliver electricity and district heating to the nearby city of Prelog.

There are a variety of interesting side projects attached to the power and heating plant:

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Source: Jutarnji via Total Croatia