Geothermal Exploration Cost and Time

Dataset · Wed Feb 13 04:00:00 EST 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.15121/1148836· OSTI ID:1148836

Jenne, Scott ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

This paper describes the methodology used to define the baseline exploration suite of techniques (baseline), as well as the approach that was used to create the cost and time data set that populates the baseline. The resulting product, an online tool for measuring impact, and the aggregated cost and time data are available on the Open Energy Information website (OpenEI, http://en.openei.org) for public access. The Department of Energy's Geothermal Technology Office (GTO) provides RD&D funding for geothermal exploration technologies with the goal of lowering the risks and costs of geothermal development and exploration. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developed this cost and time metric included collecting cost and time data for exploration techniques, creating a baseline suite of exploration techniques to which future exploration cost and time improvements can be compared, and developing an online tool for graphically showing potential project impacts (all available at http://en.openei.org/wiki/Gateway: Geothermal).

• Research Organization: DOE Geothermal Data Repository; National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Geothermal Technologies Program (EE-2C)
• Contributing Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• OSTI ID: 1148836
• Report Number(s): 208
• Availability: [e-mail]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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