[4] Potential resources include the Northern Caucasus, Western Siberia, Lake Baikal, and in Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands.
[5] There are estimates according to which the potential of geothermal energy in Russia significantly exceeds the reserves of fossil fuel (up to 10-15 times).
Reserves of geothermal water (temperature 40-200 C, depth of occurrence up to 3500 m) revealed in Russia are about 14 million m³ of hot water per day, which corresponds to about 30 million tons of fuel equivalent [6] The most accessible geothermal potential is concentrated in Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands .
In general, the explored resources of the geothermal coolant in the North Caucasus make it possible to operate power plants with a capacity of about 200 MW.
In the central part of Russia, the high-temperature geothermal coolant is mainly located at depths of more than 2 km, which makes it economically ineffective to use it for power generation purposes.