Controlled Thermal Resources has secured a lease in the Imperial Valley on which they will build a 250 megawatt geothermal electric plant. The plant is expected to be operational in 2020 at which time it will be supply electicity 24 hours a day seven days a week. When you compare it to other renewable resources of geothermal plants operate at 92% of capacity where as wind operates at 38% and solar at 25%. Ironically geothermal production runs at a higher capacity than coal or nuclear, which are both massively dangerous to the environment compared to geothermal, which is benign.
As one megawatt of energy can power 750 homes. This plant will in its initial phase be capable of powering 187,000 homes, unlike hydro it is possible to continue the expansion of this plant.
Expansion is done by adding additional wells and addition additional turbines to the plant.
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