Wednesday, September 6, 2017

USA: GRC Member Surveys the Geothermal Energy Industry

Geothermal Insights I: An industry retrospective over the past two decades (LinkedIn)

William Harvey, P.E.,
Project Engineer at POWER Engineers 
by William Harvey, P.E., Project Engineer at POWER Engineers (GRC Member)

This is the first of a three-part series discussing the trajectory of the geothermal industry: past, present and future.

It is written from my perspective working for POWER Engineers, and draws on our company’s history of engagements in the surface facility aspects of geothermal projects. This experience spans conceptual design and feasibility studies, detailed flash and binary plant design, monitoring of projects as an owner’s engineer, and performing independent engineering for lenders.

Since we at POWER are simple engineers and not geoscientists, profound insights on advances in reservoir exploration and utilization are best left to others. Although we primarily focus on surface aspects here, it is inevitable that we will have to talk a bit about reservoirs and drilling to draw a fuller portrait.

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POWER Engineers, Inc. will be exhibiting at the GRC Annual Meeting & GEA GeoExpo+ from October 1-4 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.