Eden Project Geothermal Power Plant

Enough heat for a whole rainforest.
Eden project geothermal power plant. Published on jun 22 2010 in partnership with cornwall based egs energy the eden project has planning permission for a 3 4mw geothermal power plant on the eden project site taking energy from the. After a ten year campaign the 16 8 million in funding will enable us to start drilling on eden s site in summer 2020. On a site the size of a football pitch it will produce enough power for eden and around 4000 houses plus all the heat we can use and more. Geothermal energy is the heat in the rock beneath our feet.
This is the first phase of a two well development. In partnership with egs energy and bestec uk we have set up a new company eden geothermal ltd to build a geothermal plant on the eden project site using the heat from the granite underground. Eden s geothermal plant has the go ahead for the first phase. When eden project and egs energy took a geothermal exhibition to the royal cornwall show in 2013 in response to the question do you support geothermal development in cornwall over 99 of those who responded said yes.
Geothermal energy is the heat in the rock beneath our feet. The eden project opened in a former clay quarry near st austell in 2001 the eden project has secured 17m funding for a geothermal project drilling 4 5km underground. By tapping into it we can harness this power for electricity and heat. Eden project geothermal power plant plans have been revealed for what will be the first geothermal power plant to be built in the uk.
The eden deep geothermal plant funding has been secured to drill the first well for our pioneering geothermal heat and power project. The project project programme. The project will drill and test the first 4 500 metre deep well of a geothermal energy demonstration system at the eden project followed by one year of heat production to demonstrate greenhouse gas ghg savings. The eden project co founder sir tim smit said the geothermal project was the biggest leap forward for eden since it opened in a former clay quarry near st austell in 2001.
Eden geothermal has secured funding of 9 9m from the european regional development fund alongside 1 4m from cornwall council and 5 5m from institutional investors to drill a 4 5km deep well at the eden project and heat its famous biomes greenhouses and offices.