The next General Geothermal Wazards at the Fero Energy Company has selected Energy Technology Company Baker Hughes to design and provide equipment for five organic rankine cycle (ORC) power plants in Fero’s Cape Station Power Generation Project near Milford in Utah.
Once it is operational, five cap phase II arc plants will generate about 300 MW (MW).
Baker Hughes equipment is designed to work with Fero’s better geothermal system (EGS), which resulted in the company’s “fully integrated power plant”. This award is for useless surface power generating equipment, which is taking advantage of the geothermal solution portfolio of Baker Hughes, which is spread over sub -levels and production technology until the power generation solution.
“Baker Hughes has the ideal completion for the ongoing progress at Hughes’ skills and technology cap station, which is under construction and has been successfully getting the project milestone for almost two years,” said Tim Latimer, CEO and co -founder of Fero Energy. “Fero designed Cape Station to become a flagship development that expanded, repetitive, and is proof that geothermal is ready to be a great source of reliable, carbon -free power in the United States.”
The project includes the design and supply of equipment for five 60 MW arc units in the engineering and equipment capacity of Baker Hughes, including engineering, manufacturing, and supply of turbo expanders and brush power generators. The order booked under the Industrial and Energy Technology segment of Baker Hughes, follows the previous awards for Fero Energy for sub -level excavation and production technology from the company’s oil field services and equipment business.
“Geothermal Power is one of the global renewable energy sources,” said Baker Hughes chairman and CEO Lorenzo Simonley. “By working with a leader like Fero Energy and taking advantage of our comprehensive technology solutions, we are supporting the measuring low carbon power solution that is essential to meet the growing global energy demand.”
The Cape Station is the development of the world’s largest geothermal system (EGS) and it is expected that power supply to the grid will begin in 2026. The project includes Cape Station Phase I, which is ready to supply 100 MW of Base Clean Power (MW) by grid starting from the grid in 2026, which will produce an additional 400 MW II. Up to 2 GW of reliable and renewable energy.
This project is a growing geothermal system that, instead of relying on traditional geothermal systems such as underground hot water naturally found on naturally underground hot water, produces energy by injection water into the form of hot water. If it is fully developed, the project will cover about 63 631 acres of land, including 148 acres of land on public lands.
Utah has a lot of geothermal capacity home. Researchers estimate that the southwestern part of the state has more than 10 GW of high quality geothermal reserves. In addition, the Cape Station will benefit from the Frontier Observatory of the Energy Department for research at the Geothermal Energy (Forge). In the past several years, Forge has completed research, which has promoted geothermal development in the region.
About 3,900 MW is a geothermal installed in the United States, which is a quarter of the world’s total capacity. Most of it is in California (66.6 % of the total American geothermal generation in 2023) and Nevada (26.1 %), which contains Utah (3.2 %), Hawaii (2.1 %), Oregon (1.3 %), Ideo (.5 %), and New Mexico (.2 %).
