Ahuachapan for 21 mills/kWh. Without financing charges, the cost of power is only 8 mills/kWh. The actual financing of Ahuachapan was partly through foreign loans and a local bond issue at 6% to 8% interest and partly through the internal funds of CEL. ! The Ahuachapan development has provided definitive economic and technical feasibility data which permits definition and comparison of the economic viability of using geothermal energy in a specific electric power generation system which is representative o f U.S. conditions. The project has successfully demonstrated flashed steam technology and provided technical and cost data for determining re1 iable methods of assessing reservoir capacities, we1 1 stimulation, and uti 1 i zati on techno1 ogy .

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