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SACRAMENTO -- The
California Department of Conservation
has released the Geothermal Map of
California, the most comprehensive map
ever made of the state's geothermal
resource areas, power plants, wells and
springs.
While California's
best-known volcanoes -- Mt. Shasta and
Mt. Lassen -- are in the extreme
northern part of the state, 19 Known
Geothermal Resource Areas are scattered
from Modoc and Siskiyou counties in the
north to Imperial County in the south
and from Mono County in the east to The
Geysers in Lake, Sonoma and Mendocino
counties.
There are about 1,400
wells in 14 California geothermal
fields. Currently, about 740 of these
are high-temperature geothermal wells
able to produce about 2,622 megawatts of
electricity -- more geothermally-derived
electricity than any other state.
While only six
counties have commercial geothermal
projects capable of generating
electrical power, 28 counties have
low-temperature projects that use
geothermal energy for things such as
heating buildings and greenhouses,
recreation, or aquaculture.
Inserts on the map
detail most of the Known Geothermal
Resource Areas, showing producing wells,
plugged and abandoned wells, and
geothermal springs, in addition to power
plants and their owners.
The reverse side of
the map contains a list of California's
299 known geothermal springs, including
their location, highest recorded
temperature and historical uses.
The maps are
available for $3, including shipping and
handling, from DOC/ Division of Oil,
Gas, and Geothermal Resources offices in
Sacramento, Cypress, Ventura, Santa
Maria, Bakersfield, Coalinga, El Centro
and Santa Rosa. For addresses or phone
numbers, call 916-445-9686, or check
here
on this Web site.
Also available from
DOC's Division of Oil, Gas, and
Geothermal Resources is the third
edition of the “Energy Map of
California.” It shows sedimentary
basins, oil and gas fields, major
pipelines, geothermal fields and power
plants, tanker terminals, offshore
platforms, refineries, fossil-fuel
electrical generating plants,
cogeneration plants, nuclear power
plants, hydroelectric plants and areas
with wind turbines. Insets detail
resources and facilities in the San
Francisco Bay Area, greater Los Angeles,
and Kern County. The map is available at
a cost of $5.
DOC's Division of
Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources
ensures the safe exploration and
development of energy resources. It
oversees the construction, operation and
closure of oil, gas and geothermal
wells, an important step in guarding
drinking and agricultural waters against
pollution.
More than 180,000
oil, gas, and geothermal well records,
production and injection statistics,
well logs and field maps are available
at the division's nine field offices.
Some of this information also is
available on the
DOC/DOGGR
Web site.
In addition to
regulating oil, natural gas and
geothermal wells, the Department of
Conservation studies and maps
earthquakes and other geologic
phenomena; maps and classifies areas
containing mineral deposits; ensures
reclamation of land used for mining;
administers agricultural and open-space
land conservation programs; and promotes
beverage container recycling.
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