Lihir Geothermal Power Plant

General Information
Name	Lihir Geothermal Power Plant
Sector	Geothermal energy
Location Information
Location	Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea
Coordinates	-3.1244°, 152.6464°Show Map Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","geoservice":"geonames","types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"wmsoverlay":false,"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":14,"layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"resizable":false,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"markercluster":false,"clustergridsize":60,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clusteraveragecenter":true,"clusterminsize":2,"tilt":0,"imageoverlays":[],"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"searchmarkers":"","enablefullscreen":false,"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":-3.1245485386121,"lon":152.64635838568,"icon":""}]} Hide Map
Geothermal Resource Area	Lihir Geothermal Area
Geothermal Region	Papua New Guinea Geothermal Region
Plant Information
Facility Type	Single Flash, Back Pressure
Owner	Lihir Gold
Developer	Lihir Gold
Energy Purchaser	General Electric
Commercial Online Date	1999
Power Plant Data
Type of Plant
Number of Generating Units
Operating Hours
Power Capacity
Installed Capacity (MW) (aka Total Generator Nameplate Capacity (Rated Power))	56 MW 56,000 kW 56,000,000 W 56,000,000,000 mW 0.056 GW 5.6e-5 TW ^[1]
Avg. Annual Gross Operating Capacity(MW)	56 ^[1]
Summer Peak Net Capacity (MW)
Winter Peak Net Capacity (MW)
Avg. Annual Generation/Consumption
Gross Generation (MWh)
Generation Delivered to Grid (MWh)
Plant Parasitic Consumption (MWh)
Well-Field Parasitic Consumption (MWh)
Well Field
Number of Production Wells (total)
Number of Injection Wells (total)
Avg. Well Depth (m)
Geofluid/Geosteam flow rate into plant
Average Temp of Geothermal Fluid into plant (°F)
Development Area (km2)	4 ^[2]
Average Water Use	Gross	Consumed
Total Water Use, various processes (af/day)
Daily Operation Water Use (af/day)
Well Field Water Use (af/day)
Cooling Tower Water use (annual average) (af/day)
Cooling Tower Water use (summer average) (af/day)
Cooling Tower Water use (winter average) (af/day)
Types of Water

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References[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Geochemistry of the Lihir Geothermal Field, Papua New Guinea Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Geochemistry_of_the_Lihir_Geothermal_Field.2C_Papua_New_Guinea" defined multiple times with different content
↑ Ruggero Bertani. 2005. World Geothermal Power Generation 2001-2005. Proceedings of World Geothermal Congress; Turkey: World Geothermal Congress.

[Geochemistry_of_the_Lihir_Geothermal_Field.2C_Papua_New_Guinea-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Geochemistry of the Lihir Geothermal Field, Papua New Guinea Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Geochemistry_of_the_Lihir_Geothermal_Field.2C_Papua_New_Guinea" defined multiple times with different content

[World_Geothermal_Power_Generation_2001-2005-2] Ruggero Bertani. 2005. World Geothermal Power Generation 2001-2005. Proceedings of World Geothermal Congress; Turkey: World Geothermal Congress.

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