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Geothermal Publications

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Publications like Geothermal Tomorrow (PDF 2 MB) highlight current DOE activities.

Here you'll find the Department of Energy's most recent publications about enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) technologies and research and development activities.

The following publications are available as PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.

  • Ground-Source Heat Pumps: Overview of Market Status, Barriers to Adoption, and Options for Overcoming Barriers—Final Report (PDF 1.1 MB), February 2008.
  • Geothermal (Ground-Source) Heat Pumps: Market Status, Barriers to Adoption, and Actions to Overcome Barriers (PDF 612 KB), December 2008.
  • Development of a High-Temperature Diagnostics-While-Drilling Tool (PDF 2.8 MB), 2008.
  • Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) Well Construction Technology Evaluation Report (PDF 4.1 MB), 2008.
  • Assessment of Geothermal Data Resources and Requirements (PDF 314 KB), 2008.
  • Geothermal Tomorrow 2008, (PDF 2 MB).
  • An Evaluation of Enhanced Geothermal Systems Technology (PDF 7.2 MB), 2008.
  • Risk Mitigation Strategies Report—Deloitte (PDF 774 KB), 2008.

For technical research papers and reports, also see DOE's national laboratory publications.

For all DOE-sponsored geothermal publications, including those published prior to 2008, visit the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information's Geothermal Technologies Legacy Collection.

In addition to these resources, several other organizations in the geothermal community offer access to their geothermal energy publications.