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Show OeotherniQl potential cited for county Citing the example of La-derello, La-derello, Italy, Congressman Dan Marriott said the potential po-tential for geothermal development de-velopment is significant. 'In Laderello, they started with one well in 1902. By 1945 they were developing 60 megawatts. Today theyhave 132 sources of vapor and produce 400 megawatts of power. That's not much from America's perspective but it shows the potential of geothermal power.' Marriott noted that Phillips Phil-lips Petroleum Company and UP&L are developing the geothermal project in Beaver Bea-ver County on 29,791 acres (24,592 acres are owned by the federal government and 5,199 acres are state and private). Discovered in 1975, the geothermal pocket has the potential of producing produc-ing 970 megawatts of power. 'That's enough to supply electricity as far away as Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. Veg-as. I'm convinced that by the year 2,000 most or all of the electricity In the state ing 8.25 of today's crude oil production. That means that 15 of all electrical needs could be supplied by geothermal energy. We've got 4,400 megawatt centuries of potential geothermal power, pow-er, which is 175 times the total amount of energy used in the VS. each year. He said the only operating operat-ing geothermal plant in the UJS. is the Geysers operation opera-tion in California. The largest lar-gest in the world, it produces pro-duces about 1,000 megawatts of electricity a year. You can see that with the potential po-tential in Milford (970) we have the potential of be -ing nearly as big as Geysers Gey-sers is now. Utah, Nevada, California and the West in general have great potential poten-tial In geothermal energy. My objective is to develop it, provide the economic incentives in-centives to remove the barriers bar-riers that are holding up development and to get about replacing oil with geothermal geo-thermal and other forms of energy. of Utah could be produced by geothermal with the help of solar. With that scenario nationwide it would give us the potential flexibility to use our oil for badly needed transportation and move us closer to energy independence.' inde-pendence.' Marriott said the nationwide nation-wide potential for geothermal geother-mal energy is equivalent to 1.2 trillion barrels of oil.We have a potential for replac- |