Performance Evaluation of Engineered Geothermal Systems Using Discrete Fracture Network Simulations

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 avail...

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Main Authors: Augustine, Chad, Baker, Kate, Blankenship, Doug, Carrigan, Charles, Damjanac, Branko, Dewers, Tom, Doe, Thomas, Elsworth, Derek, Fairhurst, Charles, Fehler, Michael, Fu, Pengcheng, Ingebritsen, Steve, Kennedy, Burton, Riahi, Azadeh, Sonnenthal, Eric, Warpinski, Norm
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Published: 2022
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15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
New Zealand
Iceland
Online Access:http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1775421
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1775421
https://doi.org/10.2172/1775421
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Summary: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.

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