The Eavor-Lite facility is located near Rocky House Mountain in Alberta, Canada. It is a closed-loop system consisting of two vertical wells, joined in the subsurface by two multilateral wellbores at a 2.4km depth and connected by a pipeline at the surface. At the surface, they are also connected by a pipeline.
Eavor-Lite™ was designed to achieve three objectives:
i) drilling and intersecting multiple lateral wellbores, is commercially achievable
ii) multilateral wellbores can effectively be sealed using our proprietary Rock-Pipe™ completion technology
iii) pre-calculating long term thermodynamic performance of an Eavor-Loop™ can be done accurately and validated over time
Eavor-Lite™ has successfully proven all three of these objectives. Additionally, Eavor-Lite™ has successfully demonstrated water in the system will circulate using only a thermosiphon, without the need for pumping, and that heat delivery at the surface can be managed to provide flexible energy output.
Eavor-Lite™ is filled with what is essentially potable water. This water was added to the Eavor-Loop™ at the surface and when the system was filled the water circulated naturally to harvest heat from deep in the earth and deliver it to the surface facility. In commercial implementations, this heat can be used to generate electricity or to provide direct heat for industrial or commercial purposes like district heating networks.
Since its inception, Eavor-Lite™ has produced ~11,250MWh (over 40,000 GJ). This translates into enough energy to heat 450 Canadian homes for a year, or 225 homes for two years.
Experience the Eavor-Lite™ facility using the Eavor-Lite™ virtual tour.