DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS - November 23, 2015 by 3:00 p.m.
The work would involve occasional consultation with the CEC on R&D trends and needs, and evaluation of grant requests under the EPIC program. Below is the list of topics that the CEC includes in their request for qualifications for this contract.
- Geothermal electric generation such as: vapor-and liquid-dominated electric generation technologies (including wellhead units), distributed generation geothermal technologies (e.g., less than 20 MW in capacity), and/or geothermal/oil and gas co-production; alternative thermodynamic cycles, efficiency improvements, well design, material science, corrosion and brine chemistry, pollution abatement, and environmental mitigation
- Direct use applications
- Geothermal heat pump technologies (GHP), including heat exchangers
- Geothermal resources, including: assessment and exploration, production and injection wells, reservoir engineering, and modeling
- Hot water and steam reservoirs, magma systems, geo-pressured systems, and hot dry rock
- Regulation of geothermal development and use
- Geothermal mapping/location techniques
- Economic and technical barriers to geothermal development
- Environmental impacts associated with geothermal development and production, and mitigation techniques to reduce impacts
- By-products assessment – technical and economic feasibility
