The Clearlake Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Project: Institutional Policies, Administrative Issues, and Technical Tasks
- Key words
- Hot Dry Rock; Research Agencies; USA; California; Sonoma; Clear Lake; Case Studies; Resource Assessment; CEC; Exploration; Potential; Costs; Sites
- Location
- Clear Lake, California
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1991
- Session
- HDR/EGS; Organizational profiles; Energy policy; Exploration
- Language
- English
Abstract
The Clearlake Project, is a three party collaboration between the California Energy Commission, City of Clearlake, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. It aims to develop a deep, hot dry geothermal resource under the city. The project is funded by the Commission, and administered by the City. Technical operations are conducted by Laboratory staff and resources seconded from the Hot Dry Rock program. In addition to the normal geothermal exploration problems of predicting geological and geophysical properties of the subsurface, there are uncertainties as to what further material and environmental parameters are relevant, and how they might be measured. In addition to technical factors, policy objective are an influence in choosing the most appropriate development scenario.
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