The group already owns a 17.4 MW plant on a field where it has operating rights since September last year, so this new geothermal field can bring them a total of 77.4MW of power.
The 60MW geothermal plant will be able to feed about 50,000 homes per year with electricity, with plans of building of a greenhouse, dry-ice production and other thermal facilities, using all the land’s power they can get.
The drilling project will start next month, Ali Kindap, deputy managing director of the firm, said. “Around 20 wells will be drilled and we will reach a depth of 3,000 meters.” There is a plan to begin operations of the new facility by August 2012.