Geothermal power plant - Hot-Dry-Rock (geothermal power plant construction)

The activity generating the emissions is geothermal power plant construction, Hot-Dry-Rock. The reference product is geothermal power plant, Hot-Dry-Rock. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a geothermal power plant, Hot-Dry-Rock. The system is also known as Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) and it is used to explote Earths interior heat outside known geothermal provinces. The infrastructure represents a plant with three deep boreholes with depths between 5000 m and 6000 m that has a flow rate of 224 m3/h, a land area of 7,500m2 and a lifetime of 20 years. The process includes all materials necessary to construct it, infrastructure and energy used in the machinery during the construction. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/4522/documentation.