U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Geothermal Technologies Office

2012 Peer Review Meeting

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. Project-specific presentations and project summaries can be found on individual project pages in our projects database.

Peer Evaluation Report

• New! 2012 Geothermal Technologies Office Peer Review 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

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