KenGen and GreenFire can be collaborating on an analysis of the GreenLoop closed-loop geothermal expertise on the Olkaria geothermal website in Kenya.
Kenya Electrical energy Producing Firm (KenGen) and GreenFire Power Inc. (GreenFire) have introduced a collaboration to evaluate GreenFire’s GreenLoop™ (“GreenLoop”) expertise for implementation broadly in KenGen’s relevant geothermal assets. The settlement between the 2 events was introduced throughout the Geothermal Rising Convention in Reno, Nevada.
The collaboration will use GreenLoop expertise to do an illustration of one in all KenGen’s wells within the Olkaria area which has a excessive temperature and low permeability. This collaboration underscores each corporations’ dedication to utilizing GreenFire Power’s closed-loop expertise to speed up geothermal power within the area.
The GreenLoop expertise is at present present process testing at Baker Hughes’ Power Innovation Middle in Oklahoma Metropolis, with the goal of making a primary of its form closed-loop geothermal laboratory on the planet. This venture is the main focus of the Wells2Watts Geothermal Power Consortium, of which GreenFire can also be one of many members.
KenGen is the first provider of electrical energy in Kenya with a market share of greater than 60% with 1,904 MW of technology capability. The corporate provides as much as 80% of electrical energy in Kenya with 86% coming from renewable sources. KenGen at present generates 799MW from geothermal which is 85% of the nation’s geothermal put in capability and goals to provide over 50% of its energy from geothermal power by 2030.
GreenFire Power has developed a flexible, closed-loop Superior Geothermal System (AGS) referred to as GreenLoop. GreenLoop can economically entry your complete spectrum of geothermal assets that standard geothermal expertise can not. The expertise allows new and present operators and builders to retrofit present wells, to increase present fields with new wells, and to develop new geothermal assets rapidly and economically.
“The partnership between KenGen and GreenFire Power will bolster our one hundred pc transition to renewable power by 2030 by the deployment of extra geothermal power in Kenya’s nationwide grid. The GreenLoop expertise will allow us to generate extra clear and renewable electrical energy from geothermal,” mentioned Eng Peter Njenga, KenGen, Managing Director and CEO.
“GreenFire Power is honored to be working with KenGen, one of many largest producers of geothermal power on the planet. Our patented GreenFire’s GreenLoop™ expertise has the distinctive functionality to make wells with low permeability rapidly scale-up geothermal energy technology,” mentioned Steven Brown, VP Challenge Improvement, GreenFire Power. “We see our expertise as one of many driving forces to assist Kenya meet its purpose of 100% clear power by 2030.”
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