A History of Geothermal Energy Research and Development in the United States. Reservoir Engineering 1976-2006

Technical Report · Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1218859· OSTI ID:1218859

Kennedy, B. Mack ^[1]; Pruess, Karsten ^[1]; Lippmann, Marcelo J. ^[1]; Majer, Ernest L. ^[1]; Rose, Peter E. ^[2]; Adams, Michael ^[2]; Roberston-Tait, Ann ^[3]; Moller, Nancy ^[4]; Weare, John ^[4]; Clutter, Ted ^[5]; Brown, Donald W. ^[6]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
2. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
3. GeothermEx Inc., San Pablo, CA (United States)
4. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
5. ArtComPhoto (United States)
6. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

This report, the third in a four-part series, summarizes significant research projects performed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) over 30 years to overcome challenges in reservoir engineering and to make generation of electricity from geothermal resources more cost-competitive.

• Research Organization: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Washington, DC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Geothermal Technologies Office (EE-4G) (Geothermal Technologies Office Corporate)
• OSTI ID: 1218859
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

geothermal
history
research and development
reservoir engineering