Historical improvements in geothermal power system costs

Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council

Volumn 27, Issue , 2003, Pages 533-537

  Entingh, Daniel J ^a   McVeigh, James F ^a  

^a Princeton Ener Rsrc International   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Economics; Electricity; History; Power; Technology

Indexed keywords

BINARY TECHNOLOGY; CAPITAL COSTS; GEOTHERMAL POWER SYSTEMS; GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES;

COSTS; DATA REDUCTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY;

EID: 4143114448     PISSN: 01935933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

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2. Short, Walter, "Review of U.S. Geothermal Power Cost Experience and DOE Research Goals," National Renewable Energy Laboratory briefing to U.S. Department of Energy geothermal research program HQ staff and field R&D managers, Washington, D.C., June 2002.
3. Entingh, D.J., and Short, W., "Summary of U.S. Domestic Geothermal Costs and Cost of Power 1960-1992," Princeton Energy Resources International, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Research Contractors Review, Albuquerque, NM, May, 2001.
4. Entingh, D.J., "Review of U.S. Geothermal Power System Costs, 1960-2000," for NREL and DOE Geothermal Program, Princeton Energy Resources International, Rockville, Maryland, January 2001 and May 2003.
5. We are indebted to the following for either cost data or interpretations: John Brugman, CE Holt/Bibb and Associates. Kit Bloomfield, INEEL, and ex-PG&E at The Geysers. David McClain, consultant, and ex-California Energy Company. Greg Mines, INEEL. Ken Phair, Power Engineers, and ex-Stone and Webster's geothermal power group. Richard Campbell, previously at CE Holt. Dan Schochet, ORMAT. Greg Ussher and Tracy Mills, previously at GENZL, who generated the cost estimates on the World Bank Geothermal web pages.
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13. We were told that CE Holt, the authors of the NGGPP Study and Exergy, Inc., the inventors and promoters of the Kalina Cycle systems, could not agree on the relative values for ORCs and Kalina plants. Therefore Kalina Cycle systems were not included in the final draft of the NGGPP report.
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