Mannvit, an Iceland- based company that provides a range of engineering and technical research services for renewable energy projects, declared that a geothermal district heating plant located in Southwest Hungary town, Szentlõrinc, has become fully functional.

The new plant generates around 3.1 MW of clean energy, which is used to provide hot water and heating facility for around 900 homes located in the town. The plant has a further capacity to enable expansion. The present plant has substituted the natural gas powered heating facility previously utilized by the district.

Mannvit on successful drilling completion of a 1,820 meter deep geothermal energy production well and another one for reinjection 9 has commenced the construction of the Szentlõrinc project as Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management (EPCM) contractor. The geothermal plant said to be the largest in Hungary is owned by Szentlörinci Geotermia Zrt, an auxiliary company of PannErgy. The plant was completed at a cost of 1.3 billion. The heating unit in the geothermal facility will be further developed to provide heating to the local school and municipal buildings and the return hot water will be utilized to provide heat to green houses.

During the first phase of the contract Mannvit has provided geophysical and geological research, geothermal reservoir and environmental model, well design and well sitting, administration of drilling and testing and completed the second phase of the contract under an EPCM accord. Mannvit has been working in association with PannErgy in the projects through its Budapest office for a period of over four years.

Source: http://www.mannvit.com