Department of Energy Announces $20 Million to Boost Development of Innovative Geothermal Technologies

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Program (GTP) has released a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) that seeks innovative demonstration of energy production from non-conventional geothermal resources in the following topic areas:

1. Low-Temperature Geothermal Fluids at temperatures up to 300°F
2. Geothermal Fluids Co-produced from productive, unproductive, or marginal oil and/or gas wells; other hydrocarbon production; or mineral recovery/mining operations
3. Geopressured Resources that show potential for economic recovery of heat, kinetic energy, and gas.

Innovation may include innovative cooling systems (e.g., air, water, or hybrid systems), use of innovative working fluids, the use of more efficient heat exchanger materials, and/or maximization of energy utilization via combination of electricity generation and direct technologies.
GTP’s continued efforts with industry, academia, and DOE s national laboratories to develop innovative geothermal energy technologies will establish geothermal energy as an economically competitive contributor to the U.S. energy supply.

Source : Energetica-India : International Magazine on Renewable & Conventional Power Generation | Transmission | Distribution