Estimating “Technical Capacity” for Geothermal Electricity Generation in the United States
- Key words
- Geothermal; EGS; capacity; electricity; resource estimation; heat recovery
- Location
- United States
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 2012
- Session
- HDR/EGS; Geothermal overviews
- Language
- English
Abstract
Published estimates of the amount of electrical energy (and/ or electrical power) that might be obtained from U.S. geothermal resources using non-traditional techniques (i.e. EGS) span more than two orders of magnitude. In this paper, some of these published estimates and their technical foundations are examined and evaluated.
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