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Title: Performance Evaluation of Engineered Geothermal Systems Using Discrete Fracture Network Simulations

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1775421· OSTI ID:1775421
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  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)
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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 Lab. (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

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