WE CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT
GeoTherm-ec is a company with high safety and environmental standards serving to Geothermal Sector and Oil & Gas Industry.
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
These underground reservoirs of steam and hot water can be tapped to generate electricity or to heat and cool buildings directly.
Geothermal energy has been used for thousands of years in some countries for cooking and heating. It is simply power derived from the Earth’s internal heat.
This thermal energy is contained in the rock and fluids beneath Earth’s crust. It can be found from shallow ground to several miles below the surface, and even farther down to the extremely hot molten rock called magma.
HOW IT IS USED
These underground reservoirs of steam and hot water can be tapped to generate electricity or to heat and cool buildings directly.
A geothermal heat pump system can take advantage of the constant temperature of the upper ten feet (three meters) of the Earth’s surface to heat a home in the winter, while extracting heat from the building and transferring it back to the relatively cooler ground in the summer.
Geothermal water from deeper in the Earth can be used directly for heating homes and offices, or for growing plants in greenhouses. Some U.S. cities pipe geothermal hot water under roads and sidewalks to melt snow.
Production of Geothermal Energy
To produce geothermal-generated electricity, wells, sometimes a mile (1.6 kilometers) deep or more, are drilled into underground reservoirs to tap steam and very hot water that drive turbines linked to electricity generators. The first geothermally generated electricity was produced in Larderello, Italy, in 1904.
There are three types of geothermal power plants: dry steam, flash, and binary. Dry steam, the oldest geothermal technology, takes steam out of fractures in the ground and uses it to directly drive a turbine. Flash plants pull deep, high-pressure hot water into cooler, low-pressure water. The steam that results from this process is used to drive the turbine. In binary plants, the hot water is passed by a secondary fluid with a much lower boiling point than water. This causes the secondary fluid to turn to vapor, which then drives a turbine. Most geothermal power plants in the future will be binary plants.
Geothermal energy is generated in over 20 countries. The United States is the world’s largest producer, and the largest geothermal development in the world is The Geysers north of San Francisco in California. In Iceland, many of the buildings and even swimming pools are heated with geothermal hot water. Iceland has at least 25 active volcanoes and many hot springs and geysers.
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Advantages and Disadvantages
There are many advantages of geothermal energy. It can be obtained without burning fossil fuels like coal, gas, or oil. Power generation systems, such as binary geothermal plants, will likely not release emissions.
Geothermal energy, once available, is a source of energy that can be used 24/7, 365 days a year, with a high-capacity factor, very close to 90% or more. The direct uses of geothermal energy allow savings reaching 80% compared to the uses of fossil fuels.
One of the disadvantages of geothermal energy at a commercial level is the depth at which it is found in most of the locations on the planet, which is why technologies are being developed to access it. On the other hand, for the moment, the infrastructure costs for the implementation are relatively high, however, the high efficiency and long useful life determine a high profitability in an investment project.
WHO WE ARE
GeoTherm-ec is a company with high safety and environmental standards serving to Geothermal Sector and Oil & Gas Industry.
Our people are committed to develop clean energy and integrate hydrocarbon industry with green practices tending to minimize carbon emissions going forward to net zero emission goals aligned to take care of our planet. We believe that geothermal energy is the solution to soon supply the world demand for energy. We are pleased to integrate private sector, investigation entities and universities as part of global interaction.
OUR VALUES
We are committed to serve our customers based on integrity, honesty, ethic, fairness, accountability, diversity and inclusion, teamwork, culture of continuous learning, passion, and quality.
Why Geotherm-ec ?
We develop and deliver high quality technical solutions
OIL & GAS
Support Operators to meet their objectives knowing the Ecuadorian market and integrating national and international service companies to understand the Ecuadorian Oil and Gas Industry.
More than thirty years in operations and Business Development strategies.
GEOTHERMAL
Direct geothermal uses. Oil & Gas wells repurposing using ORC technology.
Conventional Geothermal Plants from drilling to power generation.
Waste heat management for energy conversion.
SERVICES
Direct geothermal uses.
Conventional Geothermal Plants from drilling to power generation.
Oil & Gas wells repurposing Using ORC technology.
Waste heat management for energy conversion.
MAIN PROJECTS
Hot Spring use and optimization
Oil & Gas wells repurposing Using ORC technology.
Climatization in Hotels
Waste heat management for energy conversion
NEWS
GEOTHERM-EC meets Indonesian Embassy in Ecuador
The main objective of this meeting was to make an approach with the Indonesian Embassy in Ecuador, in order to initiate the integration between the two countries, as well as the private companies related to Geothermal, Oil and Gas.
The opening of the Ambassador will allow us to strengthen this relationship with the second country in installed capacity of geothermal electricity generation worldwide.
GEOTHERM-EC present in the initiative of direct uses in a Hot Spring Complex
RENAG 2021 organized by RIGS (Ibero- American Shallow Geothermal Network) was held in Ecuador. The members of the AGE attended this dissemination and technical discussion event, including GEOTHERM-EC, and we had the visit of professionals from CEGA (Los Andes Geothermal Center of Excellence). The field visit, part of the planning, allowed us to exchange ideas for the promotion of geothermal energy in Ecuador and we were able to collect field samples of the thermal water source.
Collaborators
GeoTherm-ec has a group of Global collaborators in different parts of the world as: Iceland, Spain, El Salvador, Colombia, Bolivia, USA.
