By Alex Johnson
A $1.2 BILLION geothermal power plant at Koroit will be feeding green electricity into the grid and work will have started on several others across the south-west within six years.
This is the vision from the company planning the region's first geothermal power plant, which will greet a 1500-strong delegation of the world's top geothermal experts when they tour the area in 2015.
The image of the region's steam-driven future emerged yesterday when the State Government announced it had won the rights to host the World Geothermal Congress in Melbourne.
The event, expected to attract delegates from 65 countries, will showcase geothermal exploration and infrastructure across the state, with the south-west tipped to be a major focus.
Mark Elliott, managing director of Queensland-based Hot Rock Limited, welcomed news of the congress coup.
"We would be hoping by then to have about 200 megawatts (in production)," he said.
"By that time we would certainly have carried out exploration of some of the other permits in that area and have other projects well advanced and coming into production as well."
By 2020, the company hopes to have doubled its geothermal energy production to 400 megawatts across the south-west, which translates to an investment of about $2.4 billion, Dr Elliott said.
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