Western GeoPower Corp. - Western GeoPower Corp.: Drilling Underway at the Geysers

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - March 11, 2008) - THIS NEWS RELEASE IS NOT FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR TO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NEWS SERVICES.

Western GeoPower Corp. (TSX VENTURE: WGP) (FRANKFURT: WE6.F), a renewable activity development company, today appear the admission of conduct at the Western GeoPower Unit 1 activity at The Geysers Geothermal Field in California. Drilling and testing of the aboriginal able-bodied is accepted to crop up to 90 days. The conduct affairs will absorb the conduct of a minimum of eight assembly wells and at atomic one injector well.

Independent adviser GeothermEx, Inc. of Richmond, California has advised the conduct affairs and is accouterment cardinal administration throughout the conduct phase. The wells will be directionally accomplished from absolute assignment pads to bisect ambition zones area bartering beef abundance was encountered by antecedent assembly wells. The boilerplate absolute vertical abyss per able-bodied is advancing to be 8,000 - 9,000 anxiety (2,500 - 2,800m) with the best absolute abstinent abyss accepted to be about 11,000 anxiety (3,400m).

ThermaSource, Inc. has been affianced as the arch conduct architect for the conduct program. In business back 1980, ThermaSource is a arch geothermal conduct aggregation and activity administration consultant, based in Santa Rosa, California. The ThermaSource administration aggregation has over 90 years of accumulated geothermal conduct experience, including contempo conduct at The Geysers Field.

Baker Hughes Divisions - INTEQ, Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids and Hughes Christensen is accouterment the above conduct casework for the conduct affairs (including directional conduct accessories and engineering services; conduct fluids; and assignment bits), with abstruse abutment provided by the geothermal accumulation of Baker Hughes. Western GeoPower ahead affianced the Baker Hughes Group to accommodate agnate casework for the conduct affairs at the South Meager geothermal activity in British Columbia, Canada.

Brelje & Race Consulting Civil Engineers, of Santa Rosa, California, beneath the administration of Paula Blaydes, Senior Environmental & Land Use Planner, is the ecology and allowing specialist for the project.

"We accept accumulated a abstruse aggregation that has ample acquaintance with conduct in The Geysers and has a clue almanac of operating as a adamant assemblage throughout all phases of conduct operations," said Kenneth MacLeod, President and CEO of Western GeoPower. "Development of the beef acreage is accepting structured to accredit the alpha of bartering operations in aboriginal 2010 at the proposed Western GeoPower Unit 1 ability plant."

Western GeoPower´s centralized activity administration aggregation is comprised of Mike Long, MSc, PE, Operations Manager; Randy Fulcher, Drilling Supervisor; and Tim Smith, Field Coordinator.

Mike Long has all-encompassing Project Management experience, accepting served as the Engineering Project Manager for a alternation of ample geothermal beam bulb projects accretion added than 400 MWe in new accommodation worldwide. He spent over 15 years alive for POWER Engineers, Inc., a apple baton in the architecture and engineering of geothermal activity projects, area he captivated the position of Manager of Renewable Energy Projects.

Randy Fulcher has 35 years of geothermal conduct acquaintance throughout assorted fields in California (including The Geysers Field), Southeast Asia and Central America. His ability includes able-bodied drilling, achievement procedures and adjustment work. For the accomplished decade, Mr. Fulcher formed as Pacific Area Down-Hole Systems Manager for Weatherford International, Inc.

Tim Smith has 26 years of acquaintance as a Drilling Foreman/Superintendent in geothermal and accustomed gas operations, including 16 years with Calpine Corporation primarily focused on The Geysers Field. Mr. Smith has cogent acquaintance analogous and planning conduct operations as able-bodied as conduct management.

The Geysers geothermal field, amid 75 afar arctic of San Francisco, California, is the better ambassador of geothermal electricity in the world. Commercial geothermal ability has been generated continuously at The Geysers acreage back 1960, the present bearing akin accepting about 900 megawatts of clean, baseload electricity. Western GeoPower´s Unit 1 activity is anchored in the south-western arena of The Geysers acreage in Sonoma County.

Western GeoPower Corp. is a renewable activity aggregation committed to the development of geothermal activity projects for the accumulation of clean, sustainable, baseload electricity generation. The Company is developing The Western GeoPower Unit 1 geothermal ability bulb at The Geysers Geothermal Field in California, United States. Western GeoPower is aswell developing the South Meager Geothermal Project in British Columbia, Canada.

On account of Western GeoPower Corp.

Kenneth MacLeod, President & CEO

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