XGS Energy has announced the successful operation of its proprietary water-independent technology system at commercial scale for more than 3,000 hours, becoming the first company to achieve this milestone.
Operations were completed at the Coso geothermal field, owned by Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure, located in the Western Mojave Desert in California.
XGS designed and executed a workover programme on an idle well inside the Coso field. After installing the proprietary geothermal system, including performance-boosting Thermal Reach Enhancement (TRE) technology, flow testing demonstrated record performance for a water-independent system, proving commercial economics by sustaining a difference between injection and production temperatures greater than 70 degrees Celsius.
Dr. Ghazal Izadi, XGS Chief Operating Officer, said, “This project demonstrates we are not only able to leverage TRE to produce geothermal energy at commercial scale, but also that we can substantially shorten well construction times to deliver large-scale power projects faster. With strong demonstrated performance of the TRE system, we can turn our focus to more traditional value drivers such as well design, drilling speed and surface plant cost, leveraging best practices from the oil and gas industry to deliver cost advantage at scale.”
Chief Executive Officer, Josh Prueher, commented, “This milestone is a testament to the extraordinary dedication and talent of the XGS team and our partners. This success is a critical enabler of our three-gigawatt near-term commercial pipeline as well demonstrate the geographic flexibility and differentiated financeability of XGS’ unique technology.”
XGS continues to advance its project pipeline: in June the company announced a partnership with Meta to deliver 150MW of geothermal energy to help support Meta’s data centre operations in New Mexico.