Vietnam confirms 25 MW geothermal power plant pilot project
Rice fields in Quang Ngai province, Vietnam (source: flickr/ Marika, creative commons)
Alexander Richter
24 Sep 2012
Vietnam confirms that the country's pilot geothermal power plant project of 25 MW will be developed in Quang Tri Province, with expected EGS technology being applied.
Reported this morning from Vietnam, the Viet Nam Thermal Association has confirmed that the Central Quang Tri Province’s Dakrong District will be the home for a 25 MW geothermal power pilot project.
The plant, set to be the very first of its kind in Viet Nam, has been licensed by provincial authorities and aims to promote exploration for new sources of energy in the near future.
Viet Nam has the potential for developing geothermal power in almost all provinces and cities nationwide, especially in Phu Tho, Quang Binh and Quang Tri.
It’s reported that the geothermal power plant will use Hot Dry Rock (HDR/ Enhanced Geothermal Systems/ EGS) heat mining technology to mine the heat from the hot rock found almost everywhere at some depth beneath the surface of the earth.
The water is pumped into hot, crystalline rock via an injection well, which becomes superheated as it flows opening joints in the hot rock reservoir, and is then returned through production wells.
At the surface, the useful heat is extracted to generate power and the same water is recirculated to mine more heat.”
Source: VN Agency
