Salamanca, Gto., September 25, 2017.- The project to install a geothermic plant of the ENAL Group in alliance with the University of Guanajuato (UG), won the award to the Project to Develop Sustainable Energy Technologies, which the Department of Energy (SENER) promotes together with the World Bank (BM) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

"Energías Alternas Estudios y Proyectos, S.A. de C.V.", specializes in the exploration of geothermic deposits in Mexico and Latin America; and the University of Guanajuato, will receive the golden PRODETES 2017 award, which promotes the development of clean energy businesses in the country, from companies that make alliances with universities or research centers.

From the almost 200 national contenders, the first place was for ENAL-UG. This will translate into two million dollars from BM to install a 500KW geothermic plant for the distributed generation and evaluation of the deposit, informed Dr. Alejandro Zaleta Aguilar, professor researcher of Campus Irapuato-Salamanca.

The plant will be mobile because they pretend to make tests in geothermic deposits in the cities of Cerro Prieto in Mexicali, the sulfurs in Michoacán and in Celaya, Gto. This plant will prove that geothermal energy is feasible where there is a drilled well and boiling water sprouts from the rock.

It will be a mobile plant to produce electricity which could be commercialized in the Federal Electricity network and the University of Guanajuato could be the main buyer, because it would be 40% cheaper that fossil energy.

UG will participate in developing the engineering and methods to evaluate the turbine's energetic efficiency, the latter will the responsibility of Dr. Alejandro Zaleta and a group of 10 degree and postgraduate students of Mechanical Engineering, who belong to the Invercost Group.

"I'm very happy because this opens ourselves to the liaison we seek in the University and, besides of creating quality human resources, we can create applied technology for the reality of the industrial field; this will give us the opportunity to fund scholarships and professional services to our researchers and acquire infrastructure in UG", expressed the researcher.