Comments on: Geothermal Energy Will Help Power Anaheim, California

By: jessie

jessie — Thu, 12 May 2011 16:00:41 +0000

Go Anaheim! love seeing cities and nations utilizing geo energy. Personally, I'm a huge fan of geo energy. We use it heat and cool our home, love it! -Jessie, the geothermal flow center girl

By: Cash

Cash — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:37:39 +0000

You´re both right – transmission is often the largest unspoken cost that makes all types of renewable projects uneconomic. Same problems for wind farms in West Texas, offshore wind in Massachusetts, concentrated solar in central Nevada.

For a 10MW (very small, even for a geothermal plant), they must have existing infrastructure in place to transmit it to Anaheim. As expensive as electricity is getting in California, there´s no way a 10MW plant could warrant a couple hundred million price tag required to build new transmission lines.

There´s also a more detailed version of the story at:
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=52999

By: Gavin Hudson

Gavin Hudson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:55:22 +0000

Does that mean Disneyland too?

By: John Jones

John Jones — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:59:14 +0000

NIce, you are right E is E no matter how its made. Do it up yall!

JT
http://www.FireMe.To/udi

By: OneCitizenSpeaking

OneCitizenSpeaking — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:17:03 +0000

Electricity is electricity — how does Anaheim plan to get the power if there are no direct lines to the generation point? Perhaps the project is going to sell power to someone and anaheim has contracted for an equivalent amount of power. How does that work?

By: Saper Winnipeg

Saper Winnipeg — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:19:13 +0000

This a good start
We need more concerted effort for alternative energy products like this – not foolish corn based gasohol
Its a long haul – but it has to be done
Our leaders have been spineless and short sighted