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Geothermal Water Use: Life Cycle Water Consumption, Water Resource Assessment, and Water Policy Framework

This report examines life cycle water consumption for various geothermal technologies to better understand factors that affect water consumption across the life cycle (e.g., power plant cooling, belowground fluid losses) and to assess the potential water challenges that future geo...

Schroeder, J. et al Argonne National Laboratory

Jun 10, 2014
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Life Cycle Water Consumption and Water Resource Assessment for Utility-Scale Geothermal Systems: An In-Depth Analysis of Historical and Forthcoming EGS Projects

This report is the third in a series of reports sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Program in which a range of water-related issues surrounding geothermal power production are evaluated. The first report made an initial attempt at quantifying the li...

Schroeder, J. et al Argonne National Laboratory

Aug 31, 2013
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Data for Known Geothermal Resource Areas (KGRA) and Identified Hydrothermal Resource Areas (IHRA) in Southern Idaho and Southeastern Oregon

The presented database includes water chemistry data and structural rating values for various geothermal features used for performing principal component (PC) and cluster analyses work to identify promising KGRAs and IHRAs in southern Idaho and southeastern Oregon. A brief note on...

Neupane, G. et al Idaho National Laboratory

Oct 09, 2017
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Low Temperature Geothermal Resource Assessment for Desalination in United States

This data is a compilation of well observations from the Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Association of American State Geologists (AASG), location of identified low temperature geothermal systems from United States Geological Survey (USGS), and low temperature geothermal w...

Akar, S. and Turchi, C. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 30, 2016
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Utah FORGE: Wells Wow2 and Wow3 Groundwater Monitoring Data

This dataset includes ground water level data for Utah FORGE Phase 2c ground water monitoring wells Wow2 and Wow3. The readme file explains the fields contained in the included Excel spreadsheet and contains the coordinates for the wells. The Excel spreadsheet contains raw data ta...

Kirby, S. Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Jun 20, 2019
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GeoVision: Harnessing the Heat Beneath Our Feet Analysis Inputs and Results

This submission includes input and results data from analysis done as part of the Geothermal Technology Office's Geothermal Vision Study (GeoVision). The submission includes data for both analysis of the electricity sector and the heating and cooling sector. For the electricity se...

Geothermal Technologies Office, U. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 30, 2019
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Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis for Low-Temperature Resources in the Denver Basin

This dataset is part of an effort to highlight the advantages of incorporating low-temperature (< 150 C) geothermal resource evaluation into the implementation of combined heat and power (CHP), and geothermal direct use (GDU) technologies (e.g., space heating and/or cooling). For...

Davalos-Elizondo, E. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 30, 2023
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The Convergence of Heat, Groundwater, & Fracture Permeability: Innovative Play Fairway Modeling Applied to the Tularosa Basin Project Report

This report details all of the work done in Phase 2 of a geothermal exploration project in Tularosa Basin, New Mexico. Data acquired as part of Phase 2 includes field geology (geological reconnaissance and mapping), gravity surveys, shallow temperature surveys, well water sampling...

Nash, G. et al Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

May 31, 2017
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Advanced Sorbent Structure Recovery of REEs, Precious Metals and Other Valuable Metals from Geothermal Waters and Its Associated Technoeconomics

This work evaluates, develops and demonstrates flexible, scalable mineral extraction technology for geothermal brines based upon solid phase sorbent materials with a specific focus upon rare earth elements (REEs). The selected organic and inorganic sorbent materials demonstrated h...

Addleman, S. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

May 25, 2017
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Utah FORGE: Evaluation of Potential Geochemical Responses to Injection in the FORGE Geothermal Reservoir

Plugging of fracture porosity from mineral precipitation due to injecting cold water into a a geothermal reservoir can impact the overall permeability of the fracture network in the reservoir. This can have serious ramifications on the efficiency of the geothermal resource. Geoche...

Patil, V. and Simmons, S. Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Apr 03, 2019
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Hawaii Play Fairway Analysis: Groundwater Chemistry

Groundwater geochemistry data collected for the phase 2 of the Hawaii Play Fairway Analyses. These data are included in a Lautze et al. paper to Geothermics (in review).

Lautze, N. University of Hawaii

Mar 20, 2017
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Water Use in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS): Geology of U.S. Stimulation Projects, Water Costs, and Alternative Water Use Policies

According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), geothermal energy generation in the United States is projected to more than triple by 2040 (EIA 2013). This addition, which translates to more than 5 GW of generation capacity, is anti...

Harto, C. et al Argonne National Laboratory

Dec 16, 2014
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US Low-Temperature EGS Resource Potential Estimate

Shapefile of shallow, low-temperature EGS resources for the United States, and accompanying paper (submitted to GRC 2016) describing the methodology and analysis. These data are part of a very rough estimate created for use in the U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Technology O...

Mullane, M. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 30, 2016
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Assessing REE Concentrations in Geothermal and Oil and Gas Produced Waters: A Potential Domestic Source of Strategic Mineral Commodities

The project team collected and analyzed 224 water samples and 101 matching rock samples. INL's improved method of measuring aqueous REEs allows study of samples previously thought too volume limited to measure. The study found that aqueous REEs occur at trace levels in all analyz...

Quillinan, S. et al University of Wyoming

Mar 08, 2019
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Coupling Subsurface and Above-Surface Models for Optimizing the Design of Borefields and District Heating and Cooling Systems

Accurate dynamic energy simulation is important for the design and sizing of district heating and cooling systems with geothermal heat exchange for seasonal energy storage. Current modeling approaches in building and district energy simulation tools typically consider heat conduct...

Hu, J. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jan 31, 2022
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Low-Temperature Hydrothermal Resource Potential Estimate

Compilation of data (spreadsheet and shapefiles) for several low-temperature resource types, including isolated springs and wells, delineated area convection systems, sedimentary basins and coastal plains sedimentary systems. For each system, we include estimates of the accessibl...

Mullane, M. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 30, 2016
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Chemical Impact of Elevated CO2 on Geothermal Energy Production

Numerical simulations have shown that the use of supercritical CO2 instead of water as a heat transfer fluid yields significantly greater heat extraction rates for geothermal energy. If this technology is implemented successfully, it could increase geothermal energy production and...

Carroll, S. et al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jan 01, 2013
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Snake River Plain Play Fairway Analysis: Phase 2 Report and Phase 3 Proposal

This report presents the results of Phase 2 of the Snake River Plain Play Fairway Analysis project, and a summary of proposed work for Phase 3. Phase 2 focused on new data collection in specific areas of interest identified in Phase 1. These data include new magnetotelluric, seism...

Shervais, J. et al Utah State University

Sep 05, 2017
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Utah FORGE: North Milford Groundwater Geochemistry

This dataset contains groundwater geochemistry from several wells in North Milford Valley, Utah, in the region of the Utah FORGE project (Phase 2c). Readme file that discusses the data contained in the Excel spreadsheet. Data include GPS coordinates (UTM, Lat-Long), sampling tempe...

Simmons, S. and Kirby, S. Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Jun 20, 2019
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USU Camas-1 Test Well: Documentation

This submission contains documents that describe the USU Camas-1 test well, drilled in Camas Prairie, Idaho, in Fall 2018 and Fall 2019. The purpose of this well is to validate exploration methodologies of the Snake River Plain (SRP) Play Fairway Analysis (PFA) project.

Shervais, J. Utah State University

Oct 31, 2018
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Utah FORGE: Phase 2C Seismic Observation and Ground Water Well Data and Well Locations

This submission contains the following data associated with Utah FORGE Phase 2C within the Roosevelt Hot Springs geothermal area: An ArcGIS shapefile with well locations for wells 58-32, 78-32, 68-32, OH-3, OH-4, WOW-2, and WOW-3. Well 58-32 is the deep test well, wells 68-32 an...

Abraham, S. et al Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah

Mar 26, 2019
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Exploration for Blind Geothermal Resources in the State of Hawaii Utilizing Dissolved Noble Gasses in Well Waters

This study is an extension of the Hawaii Play Fairway Analysis (PFA), a statewide geothermal exploration project funded by the United States Department of Energy. Based on results from prior phases of the PFA, this project targeted 66 wells on the islands of Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, O...

Ferguson, C. University of Hawaii

Nov 01, 2020
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Silver Peak Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.)

Data generated from the Silver Peak Innovative Exploration Project, in Esmeralda County, Nevada, encompasses a deep-circulation (amagmatic) meteoric-geothermal system circulating beneath basin-fill sediments locally blanketed with travertine in western Clayton Valley (lithium-rich...

Miller, C. Ram Power, Inc.

Jan 01, 2010
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Alum Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.)

Data generated from the Alum Innovative Exploration Project, one of several promising geothermal properties located in the middle to upper Miocene (~11-5 Ma, or million years BP) Silver Peak-Lone Mountain metamorphic core complex (SPCC) of the Walker Lane structural belt in Esmera...