The Hudson Ranch I project, located in Imperial County, is a stand-alone flash geothermal plant to be built at the Salton Sea geothermal site. Work on the project has begun and is expected to be complete by 2012. Amec will be responsible for design, engineering, training and assistance during the construction and start-up phase.
The geothermal power plant will produce electricity from naturally occurring geothermal steam stored in superheated water reservoirs thousands of feet beneath the earth’s surface. The facility will be a triple-flash plant using high-temperature crystallizer reactor clarifier technology to process the geothermal brine and steam from the Salton Sea production wells.
The plant will include a turbine-generator, cooling tower, wellhead separators, crystallizer, water tanks, primary and secondary clarifier tanks, control building, office buildings, substation, pipelines and supports, various ancillary structures, and associated internal roadways.
Once the project becomes operational, Salt River Project (SRP), a southwestern utility, will purchase the power. SRP provides electricity to more than 935,000 retail customers in the Phoenix area.
The project will benefit from US federal tax incentives contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
