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UK’s First Deep Geothermal Power Plant To Be Built In Cornwall

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Energy Monitor.

This is the sub-heading.

Once operational in late 2024, the United Downs geothermal project will deliver around 3 MW of baseload renewable electricity and up to 10 MWh of zero-carbon heat.

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Italian cleantech company Exergy International will team up with the UK’s Geothermal Engineering to construct the first deep geothermal power plant in the UK, located at the United Downs Deep Geothermal Power project in Cornwall. By late 2024, the project will deliver around 3MWe of baseload renewable electricity and up to 10MWh of zero-carbon heat for a large housing development at the newly developed Langarth Garden Village.

I have already written about using geothermal methods in the UK.

• Can Abandoned Mines Heat Our Future?
• Eden Project: Geothermal Heat Project ‘Promising’
• Exciting Renewable Energy Project for Spennymoor
• Mine Water Heat
• Schlumberger New Energy And Thermal Energy Partners Form Geothermal Development Company STEP Energy
• The Earth’s Energy: Switching Geothermal Power On
• ‘World-First’ As Bunhill 2 Launches Using Tube Heat To Warm 1,350 Homes

I can’t help feeling that in ten years time, geothermal energy will be a larger part of the UK’s energy mix, than anybody believes today.

These are my reasons.

• When engineering companies like Schlumberger get involved, they usually succeed, as this means more projects and more profits.
• If Bunhill 2 in Islington can be a success using heat from the Underground, then any well-designed geothermal project can be a success.
• There are hundreds of coal mines in the UK, that are full of warm water, that can be used as a heat source.
• Research is ongoing all over the world to improve geothermal power.

We may not be able to generate lots of geothermal energy like the United States, Iceland, Indonesia, the Philippines, Turkey, Italy, Kenya and New Zealand, but we’ll be plucky.

August 3, 2023 - Posted by AnonW | Energy | Cornwall, Geothermal Energy, United Downs Geothermal Project