The working group has conducted geophysical, geochemical hydrological explorations and shallow drilling wells since 1977 The explorations predicted that there was sufficient potential to install a 300 kW pilot geothermal power plant A joint technical cooperation project between the BRGM, Geowatt Agency for Energy Management (AFME) of France and the EGAT was formulated during 1981 1984. The purposes are to model geothermal reservoir and to appraise geothermal enthalpy targeting for electrical generation (EGAT, 1998)