{"id":505240,"date":"2010-04-02T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-5301894218366769483"},"modified":"2010-04-02T06:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T10:14:00","slug":"n-z-%e2%80%99s-mighty-river-plans-to-open-first-chilean-plant-by-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/505240","title":{"rendered":"N.Z.\u2019s Mighty River Plans to Open First Chilean Plant by 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Week reports that NZ <a href=\"http:\/\/peakenergy.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/geothermia-revisited.html\">geothermal power<\/a> company Might River is expanding across the Pacific to Chile &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-03-29\/n-z-s-mighty-river-plans-to-open-first-chilean-plant-by-2013.html\">N.Z.\u2019s Mighty River Plans to Open First Chilean Plant by 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mighty River Power Ltd., operator of the world\u2019s largest single-turbine geothermal generator, expects its Chilean venture to start operating by 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Drilling next summer will help refine the concept for a 70- megawatt, $220 million project at Tolhuaca, southeast of Concepcion, Mighty River Chief Executive Officer Doug Heffernan said in an interview in Wellington today. Construction may take three years, assuming some time is lost to winter snow, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree years from the end of this year you could have a plant operating,\u201d Heffernan said. \u201cA minimum of two years and likely three years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chile is encouraging development of new power sources after suffering shortages as Argentina reduced natural gas supplies. Mighty River, working through Denver, Colorado-based associate GeoGlobal Energy LLC, has gained access to five potential steamfields in competition with rival developers including Italy\u2019s Enel SpA, state-owned refiner Empresa Nacional de Petroleo and London-based miner Antofagasta Plc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chez_worldwide\/4326116850\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4062\/4326116850_007c2cd8d0.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2189376323632485\";\n\/* 728x90, created 5\/18\/08 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3866831776\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9864176-5301894218366769483?l=peakenergy.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/plM1L2R-GEAFHAWxDAqpc7F-kyo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/plM1L2R-GEAFHAWxDAqpc7F-kyo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/plM1L2R-GEAFHAWxDAqpc7F-kyo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/plM1L2R-GEAFHAWxDAqpc7F-kyo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Week reports that NZ geothermal power company Might River is expanding across the Pacific to Chile &#8211; N.Z.\u2019s Mighty River Plans to Open First Chilean Plant by 2013 Mighty River Power Ltd., operator of the world\u2019s largest single-turbine geothermal generator, expects its Chilean venture to start operating by 2013. Drilling next summer will help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}