Baseline System Costs for a 50 MW Enhanced Geothermal System 2012

Description

Substantial unexploited opportunity exists for the US, and the world, in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). This cost analysis study provides a baseline cost for a 50 MW Geothermal Power Plant in a challenging New England environment. The study then assesses how project costs would change as a function of (1) geothermal working fluid, that is, CO2 vs. water, (2) drilling technology, (3) CO2 generation technology, and (4) other geographic locations.

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33 Baseline system costs for a 50 MW enhanced geothermal system as a function of working fluid, technology, and location. https://gdr.openei.org/files/107/Final%20Report%20DE%20EE0002742.pdf

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  • ca
  • egs
  • working-fluid
  • western-massachusetts
  • enhanced-geothermal-systems
  • reservoir-modeling
  • cost-analysis
  • drilling
  • china-lake
  • mountain-home-id
  • geothermal

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