St. Vincents & Grenadines in talks with Eavor on reviving geothermal project
St. Vincent, Caribbean (source: flickr/ PlanetBarbados, creative commons)
Alexander Richter
8 May 2022
The government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has held discussions with Canadian Eavor Technologies in the hope to revive its geothermal project.
As reported locally from St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) in the Caribbean, the government has been meeting Canadian company Eavor Technologies to talk about the possible reviving of the island state’s geothermal power project.
With plans for the project since around 2014, the country had secured funding for the project and started a drilling campaign in 2019. Unfortunately though the project did experience low permeability of the resource with uneconomic output from the wells, as we reported in early 2020.
The project was initially developed by Icelandic company Reykjavik Geothermal in conjunction with the national SVG Geothermal company.
The initial work required will be done on the expense of Eavor. Officials of the company are then expected to return to St. Vincent and the Grenadines towards the end of 2023. With things progressing then, a new project could commence in 2024 with the hope of up to 10 MW of geothermal power generation achievable.
Source: Searchlight