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) was tasked with developing a metric in 2012 to measure the impacts of this RD&D funding on the cost and time required for exploration activities. The development of 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). 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.
- Published 01/01/2013 by US National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL.
- Published 01/01/2013 by US National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL.
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Geothermal Exploration Cost and Time | 0 KB | Website | On-line tool for determining generic cost and time estimates for Geothermal Exploration techniques. DOI 10.15121/1148836 | |
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21
2014
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Jenne, Scott. 2014. "Geothermal Exploration Cost and Time." NREL Data Catalog. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Last updated: July 24, 2024. DOI: 10.15121/1148836.
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10.15121/1148836
Public
07/24/2024
DOE Project
Funding Organization
Department of Energy (DOE)
Sponsoring Organization
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Geothermal Technologies Office (EE-4G)
Research Areas
Energy Analysis
Geothermal Energy
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10.15121/1148836