Boston – Enel Green Power, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory, under the oversight of the U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the goal of exploring the potential of EGP’s innovative Stillwater hybrid power plant. The 2 MW Stillwater Concentrated Solar Power Project is currently under construction in Fallon, Nevada and, upon completion, it will operate alongside the existing 33 MW Stillwater geothermal power plant, which is already paired with a 26 MW photovoltaic facility. This is the first hybrid plant in the world able to bring together at the same site the continuous generating capacity of binary-cycle, medium-enthalpy geothermal power with solar photovoltaic and solar thermodynamic. (9colonne)
