Enhanced Geothermal Systems
topic on 1 show · 6 statements across 3 episodes
6 statements about Enhanced Geothermal Systems, every show
Kann: Enhanced geothermal systems are realistically limited to the US West
“For enhanced geothermal systems, EGS, those rules are relaxed a bit, but realistically, we're still talking about a swath of the West in the United States, for example.”
Hoyland: US near-term geothermal resource spans hundreds of gigawatts to terawatts
“When you look at the full stack of kind of near-term EGS and conventional, we really are talking about hundreds of gigawatts to terawatts of resource potential.”
Hoyland: EGS versus conventional geothermal mirrors unconventional versus conventional oil and gas
“In many ways I think is analogous to what you see in oil and gas, the division between conventional oil and gas and unconventional. Is the ability to just drill a well and have what you need versus needing to modify the subsurface in some way.”
Horne: Half the US is accessible for $80/MWh geothermal
“So we've estimated that about half of the United States is accessible for EGS at 80 dollars a megawatt hour.”
Horne: Fervo's 90MW Utah EGS project is 20x larger than predecessors
“Their near-term plan is 90 megawatts, which is, you know, probably 20 times bigger than any of the former EGS projects, the old EGS projects that people have done.”
Horne: Next-gen geothermal concepts have existed for 40 to 50 years
“Actually none of these ideas are actually new. Most of them have been around for 40 or 50 years, and several of them tried already. EGS, perhaps, is the one that's been around the longest, first kind of postulated back in the 19 sixties at Los Alamos National …”