On May 7-11 2012, the U.S. Department of Energy's Geothermal Technologies Office (formerly Geothermal Technologies Program) held its Annual Peer Review Meeting at the Westin Westminster Hotel in Westminster, Colorado.
This event provided an important overview of our funded projects and an opportunity to meet all of our current partners.
Download the final report and some of the presentations below.
Peer Evaluation Report
Plenary Presentations
- Opening Remarks, Ava Coy, U.S. DOE Geothermal Technologies Office
- Review Chair Remarks, Dr. Kate Baker, U.S. DOE Geothermal Technologies Office
- U.S. DOE Geothermal Technologies Office, Doug Hollett, U.S. DOE Geothermal Technologies Office
International Presentations
- International Partnership for Geothermal Technology, Jay Nathwani, U.S. DOE Geothermal Technologies Office
- Australia's Geothermal Developments, IPGT Secretariat
- Switzerland
Workshop Presentations
Preliminary Environmental Assessment and Analysis of EGS Technologies Meeting
- Preliminary Environmental Assessment and Analysis of EGS Technologies, Caroline Mann, U.S. DOE Geothermal Technologies Office
Reservoir Modeling Meeting
- IPGT Reservoir Modeling Working Group, Idaho National Laboratory
- Reservoir Modeling Working Group, Lauren Boyd, Benjamin Phillips, U.S. DOE Geothermal Technologies Office
- Discussion on a Code Comparison Effort for the Geothermal Technologies Office, Mark White, Ph.D., P.E, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Lunch Presentations
- Cost Principles and Special Terms and Conditions for DOE Financial Assistance Recipients
- Davis-Bacon Act, Jay Nathwani, U.S. DOE Geothermal Technologies Office
- National Geothermal Data System - DOE Geothermal Data Repository Node, Arlene Anderson, U.S. DOE Geothermal Technologies Office
- Drilling Best Practices, Doug Blankenship, Sandia National Laboratory
- Hydrothermal Exploration Data Gap Analysis, Katherine Young, Dan Getman, Ariel Esposito, National Renewable Energy Laboratory