GTP Research and Development Projects by Awardee

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1001 South 15th Street Associates, LLC

• New School & Performing Arts Theater

Adi Analytics, LLC

• Estimation and Analysis of Life Cycle Costs of Baseline Enhanced Geothermal Systems

AltaRock Energy, Inc

• Use of multiple stimulations to improve economics of EGS
• Newberry Volcano EGS Demonstration

AltaRock Energy, Inc.

• Development of Exploration Methods for Engineered Geothermal Systems through Integrated Geophysical, Geologic and Geochemical Interpretation.

Argonne National Laboratory

• Chemical Energy Carriers (CEC) for the Utilization of Geothermal Energy
• Waveguide-Based Ultrasonic and Far-Field Electromagnetic Sensors for Downhole Reservoir Characterization
• Synchrotron X-ray Studies of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide/ Reservoir Rock Interfaces

Arizona Geological Survey

• State Geological Survey Contributions to the NGDS (AZGS_data)

Array Information Technology

• Towards the Understanding of Induced Seismicity in Enhanced Geothermal Systems

Arthur J. Mansure

• Geothermal Impact Analysis

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations Incorporated

• High Temperature 300°C Directional Drilling System

Baker-Hughes Oilfield Operation, Inc

• Detecting Fractures Using Technology at High-Temperatures and Depths

Ball State University (BSU)

• BSU GHP District Heating and Cooling System (PHASE I)

Beowawe Power, LLC

• Beowawe Bottoming Binary Project

Blaine County School District #61

• District Wide Geothermal Heating Conversion Blaine County School District

Bob Lawrence & Associates, Inc.

• Measuring the Costs and Economic, Social, and Environmental Benefits of Nationwide Geothermal Heat Pump Deployment And The Potential Employment, Energy, and Environmental Impacts of Direct Use Applications

Boise State University

• National Geothermal Database
• NGDS Data Acquisition and Access, (BSU-1)

Brookhaven National Laboratory

• Carbonation Mechanism of Reservoir Rock by Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
• Geopolymer Sealing Materials
• Using Thermally Degrading, Partitioning and Nonreactive Tracers to Determine Temperature Distribution and Fracture/Heat Transfer Surface Area in Geothermal Reservoirs

California State University - Long Beach

• Verification of Geothermal Tracer Methods in Highly Constrained Field Experiments

Cedarville School District 44

• Cedarville School District Retrofit of Heating and Cooling Systems with Geothermal Heat Pumps and Ground Source Water Loops

City of Eagan

• Geothermal Heat Pump System for Ice Arena

City of Klamath Falls, Oregon

• Klamath Falls Geothermal Low Temperature Power Plant

City of Raleigh

• Wilders Grove Solid Waste Service Center

ClimateMaster

• Development of Design and Simulation Tool for Hybrid Geothermal Heat Pump System

Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration (DPA)

• Colorado State Capitol Building Geothermal Program

Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC)

• CNCC Craig Campus Geothermal Program: 82-well closed loop GHP well field to provide geothermal energy as a common utility for a new community college campus.

Colorado School of Mines

• Geothermal Academy: Focus Center for Data Collection, Analysis and Dissemination
• Use of Geophysical Techniques to Characterize Fluid Flow in a Geothermal Reservoir
• Development and Validation of an Advanced Stimulation Prediction Model for Enhanced Geothermal Systems
• Development of Advanced Thermal-Hydrological-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) Modeling Capabilities for Enhanced Geothermal Systems

Composite Technology

• The Development and Demonstration of an Electric Submersible Pump at High-Temperatures

Composite Technology Development, Inc.

• High-Temperature Circuit Boards for use in Geothermal Well Monitoring Applications
• High Temperature, High Pressure Devices for Zonal Isolation in Geothermal Wells

CSI Technologies, LLC

• Temporary Bridging Agents for Use in Drilling and Completion of Engineered Geothermal Systems

Denver Museum of Nature & Science 

• Education and Collection Facility (ECF) Ground Source Heat Pump Demonstration Project

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

• Harsh Environment Silicon Carbide Sensor Technology

Department of Military Affairs

• Retrofit the 74,000 sq. ft Illinois National Guard State Headquarter's building's aging boiler/chiller equipment with a geothermal system

District Energy Corporation

• District Energy SW 40th Street Thermal Plant

DRAKA CABLETEQ USA, INC.

• Complete Fiber/Copper Cable Solution for Long-Term Temperature and Pressure Measurement in Supercritical Reservoirs and EGS Wells

El Paso County

• El Paso County Geothermal Electric Generation Project: Innovative Research Technologies Applied to the Geothermal Resource Potential at Ft. Bliss

Energy Center of Wisconsin

• Hybrid Geothermal Heat Pump System Research

ENVIRON International Corporation

• Optimal Ground-Source Heat Pump System Design

Flathead Electric Cooperative, Inc.

• Facility HVAC System Conversion to Ground Source Heat Pump

Flint Geothermal, LLC

• Direct Confirmation of Commercial Geothermal Resources in Colorado

Florida International University

• Analysis of Energy, Environmental and Life Cycle Cost Reduction Potential of Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) in Hot and Humid Climate

Forrest County

• Forrest County Geothermal Energy Project

Foulger Consulting

• Micro-earthquake Technology for EGS Fracture Characterization

Furman University

• North Village Ground Source Heat Pump Project

Gas Equipment Engineering Corporation

• Baseline System Costs for 50.0 MW Enhanced Geothermal System -- A Function of: Working Fluid, Technology, and Location

GE Global Research

• Pressure Sensor and Telemetry Methods for Measurement While Drilling in Geothermal Wells
• High-Temperature-High-Volume Lifting For Enhanced Geothermal Systems
• Development of Tools for Measuring Temperature, Flow, Pressure, and Seismicity of EGS Reservoirs
• High-Potential Working Fluids for Next Generation Binary Cycle Geothermal Power Plants

General Electric Company

• Multiparameter Fiber Optic Sensing System for Monitoring Enhanced Geothermal Systems

GeoGlobal Energy, LLC

• Away from the Range Front: Intra-Basin Geothermal Exploration

Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium

• National Certification Standard for the Geothermal Heat Pump Industry

Geothermal Technical Partners, Inc

• Effectiveness of shallow temperature surveys to target a geothermal reservoir at previously explored site at McGee Mountain, Nevada

Geysers Power Company, LLC

• Demonstration of an Enhanced Geothermal System at the Northwest Geysers Geothermal Field

Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy, University of Nevada, Reno

• Characterizing Structural Controls of EGS-Candidate and Conventional Geothermal Reservoirs in the Great Basin: Developing Successful Exploration Strategies in Extended Terranes

Hattenburg, Dilley, and Linnell, LLC

• Identifying Fractures with Geochemical Techniques

Hi-Q Geophysical Inc

• Seismic Fracture Characterization Methods for Enhanced Geothermal Systems

Honeywell International Inc.

• OM-300 – MWD Geothermal Navigation Instrument

Idaho National Laboratory

• Advancing Reactive Tracer Methods for Measuring Thermal Evolution in CO₂- and Water-Based Geothermal Reservoirs
• FRACSTIM/I: An Integrated Fracture Stimulation and Reservoir Flow and Transport Simulator
• Air-Cooled Condensers in Next-Generation Conversion Systems

Impact Technologies, LLC

• Microhole Arrays Drilled With Advanced Abrasive Slurry Jet Technology To Efficiently Exploit Enhanced Geothermal Systems

Indiana Institute of Technology

• Pioneering Heat Pump Project

Indie Energy Systems Company, LLC

• Retrofit of the Local 150 of International Union of Operating Engineers Headquarters Campus

Johnson Controls, Inc.

• Two (2) 175 Ton (350 Tons total) Chiller Geothermal Heat Pumps for recently commissioned LEED Platinum Building
• Novel Energy Conversion Equipment for Low Temperature Geothermal Resources

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Fluid Imaging of Enhanced Geothermal Systems through Joint 3D Geophysical Inverse Modeling
• Coupled Thermal-Hydrological-Mechanical-Chemical Model and Experiments for Optimization of Enhanced Geothermal System Development and Production
• Integrated Approach to Use Natural Chemical and Isotopic Tracers to Estimate Fracture Spacing and Surface Area in EGS Systems
• Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) with CO₂ as Heat Transmission Fluid

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• Chemical Impact of Elevated CO₂ on Geothermal Energy Production
• Mapping Diffuse Seismicity for Geothermal Reservoir Management with Matched Field Processing
• Predicting Stimulation-Response Relationships for Engineered Geothermal Reservoirs

Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Multipurpose Acoustic Sensor for Downhole Fluid Monitoring
• Imaging, Characterizing, and Modeling of Fracture Networks and Fluid Flow in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) Reservoirs

Louisiana Tank, Inc.

• Demonstrating the Commercial Feasibility of Geopressured-Geothermal Power Development at Sweet Lake Field Cameron Parish, Louisiana

Magma Energy

• A 3D-3C Reflection Seismic Survey and Data Integration to Identify the Seismic Response of Fractures and Permeable Zones Over a Known Geothermal Resource at Soda Lake, Churchill Co., NV
• Application of a New Structural Model and Exploration Technologies to Define a Blind Geothermal System: A Viable Alternative to Grid-Drilling for Geothermal Exploration: McCoy, Churchill County, NV

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Decision Analysis for Enhanced Geothermal Systems
• Monitoring and Modeling Fluid Flow in a Developing EGS Reservoir
• Detection and Characterization of Fractures for the Development of EGS

Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency

• MDHA Geothermal Technologies Program

Montana Tech of The University of Montana

• A Demonstration System for Capturing Geothermal Energy from Mine Waters beneath Butte, MT

Naknek Electric Association

• Implementation of a Demonstration EGS Project at Naknek, Alaska

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

• Hybrid and Advanced Air Cooling

Nevada Geothermal Power Company

• Black Warrior: Sub-soil Gas and Fluid Inclusion Exploration and Slim Well Drilling
• High Precision Geophysics & Detailed Structural Exploration & Slim Well Drilling

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

• A Geothermal District-Heating System and Alternative Energy Research Park on the NM Tech Campus

Newberry Geothermal Holdings, LLC

• Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies for Newberry Volcano

Newport School District

• Newport High School Retrofit of Heating and Cooling Systems with Geothermal Heat Pumps and Lake Source Water Loop

Novatek, Inc.

• Stinger enhanced bits for engineered geothermal systems (EGS)

Oak Ridge City Center, LLC

• Oak Ridge City Center Technology Demonstration Project

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Working Fluids and Their Effect on Geothermal Turbines
• Wear-Resistant NanoComposite Stainless Steel Coatings and Bits for Geothermal Drilling
• Feasibility and Design for a High-Temperature Downhole Tool
• Properties of CO₂-Rich Pore Fluids and Their Effect on Porosity Evolution in EGS Rocks

Oakland University

• Oakland University Human Health Science Building Geothermal Heat Pump Systems

Oasys Water

• Osmotic Heat Engine for Energy Production from Low Temperature Geothermal Resources

Oklahoma State University

• Improved Design Tools for Surface Water and Standing Column Well Heat Pump Systems

Ormat Nevada, Inc

• Blind Geothermal System Exploration in Active Volcanic Environments; Multi-phase Geophysical and Geochemical Surveys in Overt and Subtle Volcanic Systems, Hawai'i and Maui
• Feasibility of EGS Development at Brady's Hot Springs

Ormat Nevada, Inc.

• Conducting a 3D Converted Shear Wave Project to reduce exploration risk at Wister, CA
• Merging High Resolution Geophysical and Geochemical Surveys to Reduce Exploration Risk at Glass Buttes, Oregon

OSKI Energy, LLC

• Advanced Seismic data Analysis Program (The "Hot Pot Project")

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• Development of New Biphasic Metal Organic Working Fluids for Subcritical Geothermal Systems

Pennsylvania State University

• THMC Modeling of EGS Reservoirs – Continuum through Discontinuum Representations: Capturing Reservoir Stimulation, Evolution and Induced Seismicity

Perma Works and Frequency Management International

• Well Monitoring Systems for EGS

Potter Drilling, Inc.

• Development of a Hydrothermal Spallation Drilling System for EGS

Power, Environmental and Energy Research Institute

• Novel Multidimensional Tracers for Geothermal Inter-Well Diagnostics

Presco Energy, LLC

• Application of 2D VSP Imaging Technology to the Targeting of Exploration and Production Wells in a Basin and Range Geothermal System Humboldt House-Rye Patch Geothermal Area

Pueblo of Jemez

• Innovative Exploration Techniques for Geothermal Assessment at Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico

Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe

• Comprehensive Evaluation of the Geothermal Resource Potential within the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation

Ram Power, Inc.

• New River Geothermal Research Project, Imperial Valley, California

RiverHeath, LLC

• Large Scale Geothermal Exchange System for Residential, Office and Retail Development

Sandia National Laboratories

• Base Technologies and Tools for Supercritical Reservoirs
• Technology Development and Field Trials of EGS Drilling Systems

Schlumberger Technology Corp

• Perforating System for Geothermal Applications

Schlumberger Technology Corporation

• Extending the Temperature Range of Electric Submersible Pumps to 338°C
• High Temperature Pump Monitoring

Science Applications International Corporation

• Development of an Advanced Stimulation/Production Predictive Simulator for Enhanced Geothermal Systems

Sierra Geothermal Power, Inc.

• Alum Innovative Exploration Project
• Silver Peak Innovative Exploration Project

Simbol Mining Corp.

• Technologies for Extracting Valuable Metals and Compounds from Geothermal Fluids

SKYCHASER ENERGY, INC.

• Lake Elizabeth Micro-Utility

Southern Methodist University

• Geothermal Data Aggregation: Submission of heat flow, well data and metadata to the NGDS based on a reusable framework for geothermal data integration and quality assurance (SMU-92170)

Stanford University

• The Use of Downhole Technologies to Characterize Fractures in EGS Reservoirs

Surprise Valley Electrification Corp.

• Rural Cooperative Geothermal Development Electric and Agriculture

Symyx Technologies, Inc.

• Experiment-Based Model for the Chemical Interactions between Geothermal Rocks, Supercritical Carbon Dioxide and Water

Tennessee Department of Education

• Tennessee Energy Efficient Schools Initiative Ground Source Heat Pumps

Terra-Gen Sierra Holdings, LLC

• Dixie Valley Bottoming Binary Project

Texas A&M University

• Development of a Geological and Geomechanical Framework for the Analysis of MEQ in EGS Experiments (Geysers)
• Use of a Model for Reservoir Stimulation Analysis and Characterization
• Use of a Reservoir Model to Predict Potential Effects of Fracturing Techniques

TGP Development Company, LLC

• New York Canyon Stimulation

The University of Texas at Austin

• Seismic Technology Adapted to Analyzing and Developing Geothermal Systems Below Surface-Exposed High-Velocity Rocks

Trabits Group, LLC

• Development of an Improved Cement for Geothermal Wells

United Technologies Research Center

• Optimization of hybrid-water/air-cooled condenser in an enhanced turbine geothermal ORC system
• Tailored Working Fluids for Enhanced Binary Geothermal Power Plants

Universal GeoPower, LLC

• Technical Demonstration and Economic Validation of Geothermally-Produced Electricity from Coproduced Water at Existing Oil/Gas Wells in Texas

University of Alaska

• Pilgrim Hot Springs, Alaska

University of Hartford

• Development of a Software Design Tool for Hybrid Solar-Geothermal Heat Pump Systems in Heating- and Cooling-Dominated Buildings

University of Kansas

• Detachment Faulting and Geothermal Resources – An Innovative Integrated Geological and Geophysical Investigation in Fish Lake Valley, Nevada

University of Minnesota

• An Integrated Experimental and Numerical Study: Developing a Reaction Transport Model that Couples Chemical Reactions of Mineral Dissolution/Precipitation with Spatial and Temporal Flow Variations in CO₂/Brine/Rock Systems

University of Missouri

• Large Scale GSHP as Alternative Energy for American Farmers

University of Nevada - Reno

• A new analytic-adaptive model for EGS assessment, development and management support

University of North Dakota

• Electric Power Generation from Co-Produced Fluids from Oil and Gas Wells
• Electric Power Generation from Low-Temperature Geothermal Resources

University of Southern California

• Characterizing Fractures in Geysers Geothermal Field by Micro-seismic Data, Using Soft Computing, Fractals, and Shear Wave Anisotropy

University of Texas at Austin

• Analysis & Tools to Spur Increased Deployment of "Waste Heat" Rejection/Recycling Hybrid GHP Systems in Hot, Arid or Semiarid Climates Like Texas

University of Utah

• The Development of Fracturing Techniques
• Use of Tracers to Characterize Fractures in Engineered Geothermal Systems
• Enhanced Geothermal Systems – Concept Testing and Development at the Raft River Geothermal Field
• Fracture Network and Fluid Flow Imaging for Enhanced Geothermal Systems: Applications from Multi-Dimensional Electrical Resistivity Structure
• Development of Chemical Model to Predict the Interactions between Supercritical CO₂ and Fluid, Rocks in EGS Reservoirs
• Quantum Dot Tracers for Use in Engineered Geothermal Systems
• Economic Impact Analysis for EGS

University at Albany

• Geothermal Heat Pump System for New Student Housing

US Geothermal, Inc.

• Finding Large Aperture Fractures in Geothermal Resource Areas Using a Three-Component Long-Offset Surface Seismic Survey

Utah State University

• The Snake River Geothermal Drilling Project – Innovative Approaches to Geothermal Exploration

Vulcan Power Company

• Validation of Innovative Exploration Technologies at the Colado, Nevada, Geothermal Prospect

West Virginia University

• Analysis of Low-Temperature Utilization of Geothermal Resources

William Lettis & Associates, Inc.

• Integration of Noise and Coda Correlation Data into Kinematic and Waveform Inversions With Microearthquake Data for 3D Velocity Structure, Earthquake Locations, and Moment Tensors in Geothermal Reservoirs

Wright State University

• Finite Volume Based Computer Program for Ground Source Heat Pump Systems