A trio of Colorado School of Mines professors are lending their expertise to a multimillion-dollar U.S. Department of Energy geothermal project that’s aiming to remove the technical barriers to commercializing the clean energy source.
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is leading seven other DOE national laboratories and six universities on the EGS Collab Sigma-V Project. Locally, the partnership includes Mines and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden.
Three faculty members from Mines’ Petroleum Engineering Department are contributing to the project: Associate Professor and Associate Department Head Jennifer Miskimins, Professor Yu-Shu Wu and Research Associate Professor Philip Winterfeld. All three are collaborating with NREL.