Skip to main content
OSTI.GOVU.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
 

Performance Evaluation of Engineered Geothermal Systems Using Discrete Fracture Network Simulations

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1775421· OSTI ID:1775421
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [3];  [6];  [7];  [5];  [8];  [4];  [9];  [10];  [5];  [10];  [11]
  1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  2. Consultant
  3. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
  4. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  5. Itasca Consulting Group Inc., Minneapolis, MN (United States)
  6. Golder Associates Inc., Toronto, ON (Canada)
  7. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  8. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  9. US Geological Survey, Boulder, CO (United States)
  10. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  11. Haliburton, Houston, TX (United States)
+ Show Author Affiliations
Electrical power production from geothermal energy has a solid record of success for permeable reservoirs such as The Geysers in northern California and geothermal systems in Iceland and New Zealand, among other places. Such permeable reservoirs, however, represent only a small fraction of the available heat energy in the earth’s shallow crust. Most of the available energy resides in rocks with insufficient permeability and storage to produce commercial volumes of heated fluids.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Geothermal Technologies Office
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; NA0003525; AC52-07NA27344
OSTI ID:
1775421
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Geothermal regimes of the Clearlake region, northern California
Technical Report · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1998 · OSTI ID:663361
HDR (Hot Dry Rock) technology transfer activities in the Clear Lake Area, California
Conference · Sun Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1989 · OSTI ID:6842144
Enhanced geothermal systems
Conference · Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1998 · OSTI ID:20002766

Related Subjects

15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY