Australian Green Rock filing for project funding
Alexander Richter
8 Aug 2009
Green Rock Energy filed an application with the Australian government in Canberra under the Geothermal Drilling Program (GDP) for a grant of AUD$7 million (US$5.8 million).
Reported locally, “Green Rock Energy filed an application with the Australian government in Canberra under the Geothermal Drilling Program (GDP) for a grant of AUD$7 million (US$5.8 million).
Last month, Green Rock Energy reported that it and the University of Western Australia (UWA) had been formally offered the Geothermal Exploration Permit in the Perth Metropolitan Area, including the UWA’s Crawley Campus, enabling the development of the first geothermal energy project under Western Australia’s (WA’s) recently enacted geothermal legislation.
The UWA Geothermal Energy Project is designed to replace a significant portion of the UWA’s Crawley Campus’ electricity powered compression chillers that produce cold water for air-conditioning, with geothermal power absorption chillers. This commercial demonstration project will replace about 5 MW thermal, or one third, of the electricity presently used to power the University’s central air-conditioning plants. Absorption chillers are proven technology widely used for commercial air conditioning in the U.S.
Green Rock Energy’s Managing Director, Adrian Larking, said, “This UWA based renewable energy project will be the first geothermal energy project undertaken under Western Australia’s new geothermal legislation, the first geothermal powered absorption chiller in Australia and the first major geothermal project in Western Australia. We aim to be the first major geothermal project in production in Australia.”
Green Rock Energy will drill two geothermal wells, to a depth of approximately 3,000 meters (9,842 ft), to provide the 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit) geothermal water to power a 5 MW absorption chiller. One well, a production well, will be used to access and obtain the hot geothermal water and the other, an injection well, used to return the cooler geothermal water following the extraction of the geothermal energy (in the form of heat) by the absorption chiller.”
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Source: Energy Current
