From the same 1990 Survey recently mentioned.
Recent research by the Camborne School of Mines at their site at Rosemanowas Quarry in the Carnmenellis Granite has been directed towards solving the engineering problems with the extraction of the geothermal heat from the impervious granite by the enhancement of natural fractures in the rock and the injection of recovery of water heated by the hot rock reservoir. Resuts from the pilot stage of this work have been sufficiently encouraging for the UK Department of Energy to finance a full - scale trial with 6km-deep wells recovering water at more than 170 deg. C and generating approximately 5MW of electricity. If this stage of the programme is successful it is calculated that the entire south – west batholith could represent a major new energy source Equivalent to 6000 million tons of coal, or the entire UK national coal reserves. (My emphasis).
Didn’t happen of course, or at least not yet.
Have uploaded an article with the latest on geothermal.
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.