Science & Technology: Lab to Help Develop Geothermal Power Project Using CO2 as Working Fluid

Lab collaborates with small businesses in gas turbine manufacturing and geothermal projects (LLNL)

The ECO2G System, in which carbon dioxide is circulated through deep well bores to harvest geothermal energy. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is collaborating with GreenFire Energy on the project.

Two small businesses working with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will receive more than $350,000 for expertise in advanced gas turbine manufacturing and geothermal engineering as part of the Department of Energy‘s (DOE) Small Business Voucher (SBV) pilot.

With vouchers in hand, these businesses can better leverage the world-class capabilities of the department’s national laboratories and bring their next-generation clean energy technologies to the marketplace faster.

LLNL scientists Joe Morris and Rick Ryerson will work with GreenFire Energy to develop a novel technology in which carbon dioxide is circulated through deep well bores to harvest geothermal energy.

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