Geothermal Potential of the Cascade and Aleutian Arcs, with Ranking of Individual Volcanic Centers for their Potential to Host Electricity-Grade Reservoirs
- ATLAS Geosciences, Inc., Reno, NV (United States)
- Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
- Western Washington Univ., Bellingham, WA (United States)
- GEODE, Santa Rosa, CA (United States)
- Cumming Geoscience, Santa Rosa, CA (United States)
This project brings a global perspective to volcanic arc geothermal play fairway analysis by developing statistics for the occurrence of geothermal reservoirs and their geoscience context worldwide in order to rank U.S. prospects. The focus of the work was to develop play fairways for the Cascade and Aleutian arcs to rank the individual volcanic centers in these arcs by their potential to host electricity grade geothermal systems. The Fairway models were developed by describing key geologic factors expected to be indicative of productive geothermal systems in a global training set, which includes 74 volcanic centers world-wide with current power production. To our knowledge, this is the most robust geothermal benchmark training set for magmatic systems to date that will be made public.
- Research Organization:
- ATLAS Geosciences, Inc., Reno, NV (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Geothermal Technologies Office
- Contributing Organization:
- Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States); Western Washington Univ., Bellingham, WA (United States); GEODE, Santa Rosa, CA (United States); Cumming Geoscience, Santa Rosa, CA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0006725
- OSTI ID:
- 1238379
- Report Number(s):
- DE-EE0006725
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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