Elmore North Geothermal Project (ENGP)

The Elmore North Geothermal Project (ENGP) is proposed to be developed by Elmore North Geothermal, LLC, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of BHE Renewables, LLC (BHER). The ENGP generating facility would be on 51 acres of a 140-acre parcel in unincorporated Imperial County, bounded by an unnamed dirt road to the north, Cox Road to the west, Garst Road to the east, and West Sinclair Road to the south. The town of Niland is approximately six miles northeast and the town of Calipatria is approximately six miles southeast from the project site. 

The ENGP would have a maximum continuous rating of approximately 157 megawatts (MW) gross, with an expected net output of roughly 140 MW. The project includes geothermal production wells, pipelines, fluid and steam handling facilities, a solids handling system, a Class II surface impoundment, a service water pond, a stormwater retention basin, process fluid injection pumps, a power distribution center, borrow pits, and injection wells. The main components of ENGP include a steam turbine generator system, geothermal fluid processing system, a single 14-cell cooling tower, 21 wells (including production and injection wells) and 13 well pads, and a 0.5-mile-long aboveground interconnection to an Imperial Irrigation District switching station to be constructed as part of the project.