alternative energy source found in southwest utah

A company is claiming it has found the nation’s biggest geo-thermal find in 25 years in southwest Utah.

This weekend they’re already finishing up a power plant to provide electricity for Mickey Mouse’s home town.

“We call them ‘heat farms’ because we’re just extracting heat out of the earth,” says Michael Hayter of Raser Technologies.

The heat farm has sprouted quickly near Minersville. In the last several weeks, construction crews for Raser Technologies have installed 50 individual modules that produce electricity from steam.

According to Raser, the units can be installed and making power within three to five days of delivery. They make 10 Megawatts, enough for 8,000 homes already sold to the city of Anaheim, California.

“We knew we had enough for 10 megawatts when we started the development,” says Hayter. “And as we went on we found a much larger resource.”

KSL