Final testing being done in project to give North Yorkshire site new life as source of geothermal energy
Karl Farrow is CEO of CeraPhi, which is testing the viability of geothermal energy at an old Gas Well in Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire,Karl Farrow is CEO of CeraPhi, which is testing the viability of geothermal energy at an old Gas Well in Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire,environmental protests, may soon be a new frontier in Britain’s clean energy revolution. For the first time in the UK, an abandoned gas well could begin a second life as a source of geothermal energy.
After 30 years in the fossil fuel sector, Karl Farrow founded the company in 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The plan, he said, was to bring together people with deep expertise in the oil and gas industry to unlock a new source of clean energy. For the company it was a “natural transition” to reuse their existing drilling expertise and infrastructure to tap the renewable energy below. Drilling for fossil fuels and drilling for geothermal is “virtually identical”, Farrow said. “The only difference is that you’re effectively extracting a renewable energy source rather than a fossil fuel.”
The Kirby Misperton project is at its final testing phase: so far the results have proven Farrow’s theories and engineering calculations. In some cases he says they were better than expected. His team had anticipated temperatures of 90 degrees Celsius at the base of the wells, but instead recorded temperatures of 110 degrees. Farrow hopes to share the findings with the community, local authorities and government bodies to make the case for Britain’s geothermal potential.
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