Tuesday, January 8, 2013

USA:

Geothermal Technologies Office Releases 2012 Annual Report (Geothermal Technologies Program)

The Geothermal Technologies Office takes a look back at 2012 in this annual report, highlighting program areas, special projects, activities, and accomplishments.

Doug Hollett, Director, writes a foreword that includes a look ahead in the coming year:

"We look forward to successful deployment of several binary units into working oil and gas field operations, to better illustrate the technical and operating conditions where this is economically attractive. We expect to see groundbreaking for the first lithium from a geothermal plant in California; more exciting results in our EGS demos and R&D; initial output from the geothermal play fairway analysis; and major progress on our EGS test project initiative, which will be the key program component in making EGS a large-scale reality". Geothermal Technologies Office 2012 Annual Report (PDF)