USA: Important Milestone for Geothermal Data Repository

Geothermal Data Repository Reaches 500 Submissions (DOE/GTO)

A map of the United States highlighting the locations of GDR submissions. Critical data about the subsurface is added to the GDR from sites all across the country. Credit: Jon Weers, NREL.

July 15 marked an important milestone for the Energy Department’s Geothermal Data Repository (GDR), as the online geoscience tool received its 500th submission since its launch in March 2012.

 The Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) deployed the GDR to store all of the data collected from office-funded projects, but also to help accelerate the research and development of geothermal energy resources by providing researchers, academia, and industry with access to this project information. 

The GDR is one of many members of the Energy Department’s National Geothermal Data System (NGDS), which provides free access to millions of records of geothermal research and site demonstration data.

The DOE/GTO will be exhibiting at the GRC Annual Meeting & GEA Geothermal Energy Expo, September 20-23, in Reno, Nevada, USA.

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