September 2013 Hourly Data from Florida Canyon Green Machine Geothermal Plant

Department of Energy data provides an hourly summary of operations for the Florida Canyon Green Machine, a modular Organic Rankine Cycle power plant using low-temperature geothermal brine. The data covers the full month of September 2013, documenting the technical and financial viability of micro-geothermal electricity production. The dataset originates from a demonstration project at a mining site, where waste heat was converted to power with an expected output of 30-70 kilowatts electrical.

Use Cases

• Analyze hourly power production patterns over the 30-day period to assess plant performance stability.
• Correlate geothermal brine input conditions with expected electrical output in the 30-70 kWe range.
• Model the efficiency of the air-cooled condensing system using time-series operational parameters.
• Benchmark the financial viability of coproduced, low-temperature geothermal energy in a mining context.

Strengths

• Data covers a complete, consecutive 30-day operational period in September 2013.
• Dataset documents a specific, innovative technology demonstration by the Department of Energy.
• Focus on a unique application of geothermal power within a mining operation for coproduced fluids.

Limitations

• Dataset is limited to a single month of operation, preventing long-term trend analysis.
• Sample data and column structure are unavailable, obscuring the specific metrics recorded.
• The data is from 2013 and may not reflect current performance of similar technologies.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy

Collection Method

Hourly summary data collected from the ElectraTherm Green Machine power plant during operation.

Time Range

1 September 2013 to 30 September 2013

Freshness

Data is from September 2013; metadata was last updated in January 2025.

Geography

Florida Canyon mining site