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Status of EGS – Pilot projects are currently either operational or under development in Australia, the United States, and Germany. However EGS using supercritical CO2 is at a very early stage of development and is yet to be tested at demonstration scale.(1) Joint venture of GreenFire Energy with Enhanced Oil Resources plan to build a 2MW CO2 based demonstration plant near the Arizona-New Mexico border. Drilling of wells to access hot rock is proposed to commence in 2010. The proposed location is projected to yield enough heat to generate 800 MW of power with potential to absorb much of the CO2 generated by six large coal-fired plants in the region.(2) Geodynamics Limited Innamincka ‘Deeps’ Joint Venture with Origin Energy: a 1 MW power plant has been constructed at Habanero. Electricity generation is expected to occur by early 2012 following the successful completion of Habanero 4 and Habanero 5 (reservoirs). This will be the first enhanced geothermal system in Australia.Due to make final investment decision on proposed $300 million, 25MW geothermal demonstration plant in the Cooper Basin by early 2013, after 12 months of successful operation of the Habanero closed loop. (This is two years later than previously stated).Testing the use of supercritical CO2 as the working fluid in geothermal systems is projected to commence in 2013.
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