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GEOTHERMAL WEBSITES

Tonya "Toni" Boyd

Geo-Heat Center

3201 Campus Drive

Klamath Falls, OR, 97601, USA

E-mail: boydt@oit.edu

ABSTRACT

The Internet has become such an important part of

our every day life. It can be used to correspond with

people across the world, a lot faster than to send a

letter in the mail. The Internet has a wealth of

information that is available to anybody just by

searching for it. Sometimes you get more

information than you ever wanted to know and

sometimes you can't find any information.

This paper will only cover a small portion of the

websites and their links that have geothermal

information concerning reservoir engineering,

enhanced geothermal systems, hot dry rock and other

aspects of geothermal. Some of the websites below

are located in the US others international, such as,

geothermal associations, and websites where you can

access publications. Most of the websites listed

below also have links to other websites for even more

information.

 

STANFORD GEOTHERMAL PROGRAM

http://ekofisk.stanford.edu/geotherm.html

This website provides information on their program

and their graduate study. They also have a section

for their downloadable reports and publications.

Some of the technical reports they have available go

back to 1973. There are overview reports from 1990

on including Quarterly reports. As you all probably

know they have information on their upcoming

Geothermal Workshop. All the proceeding from the

Geothermal Workshops from 1997 to the current can

be searched for on their website. The database can be

search by any word in the title, author name,

keyword, year or session.

 

GEO-HEAT CENTER

http://geoheat.oit.edu

The Geo-Heat Center provides dissemination of

geothermal information and technology transfer. The

transfer of technological information to consultants,

developers, potential users, and the general public is

an important element in the development of direct

heat utilization of geothermal energy. Their main

focus is on the use of low to moderate temperature

resources and small-scale power. Their website

includes an interactive direct-use map, information

on co-located resources, and a database on

geothermal wells and springs for 16 western states.

They also have downloadable technical papers and

bulletin articles on all types of geothermal

applications and resources, plus a geothermal heat

pump newsletter.

 

GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES COUNCIL

http://www.geothermal.org/index.html

The Geothermal Resource Council (GRC) has a

searchable library containing bibliographic

information of articles from a variety of publications

on all aspect of geothermal worldwide. This database

will inform you on where the publication is located

and if you do not have the publication how you can

order it. A new addition to their website for GRC

members is access to all the GRC Transactions

volumes 1 through 27 and GRC Special Reports

volumes 1 through 19 as downloadable PDF files. If

you are a member of the GRC you can download

papers free of charge. The non-member section of

the library database allows the same searches and a

preview of the above publications only. They also

provide information on becoming a member of the

organization and their Annual Meeting.

 

INTERNATIONAL GEOTHERMAL

ASSOCIATION

http://iga.igg.cnr.it/index.php

They provide information on geothermal energy use

around the world, world conferences on geothermal,

and links to related web sites. They have an

interactive map of the geothermal of the world, plus a

table of electrical generation and direct use

applications for each country. There is also a

summary of each country's applications that have

been summarized from the World Geothermal

Congress proceedings papers, which will be updated

after the WGC2005 conference. They also have a

link to where you can search for IGA Geothermal

Conference Papers database (hosted on the Stanford

Geothermal Program website). This database search

covers World Geothermal Congress proceedings

from 1995 and 2000, European Geothermal Congress

2003, Iceland Geothermal Conference 2003,

International Geothermal Workshop, Russia 2003,

Beijing International Geothermal Symposium, 2002,

Geothermal Energy in Underground Mines, Ustron,

Poland 2001, and Stanford Geothermal Workshops

1997 – 2004. There is also a database to search for

Past IGA newsletters from Issue 1 to 49.

 

WORLD GEOTHERMAL CONGRESS 2005

http://www.wgc2005.org

This website contains information on the World

Geothermal Congress 2005 meeting. Some of the

links includes information on their short courses,

technical program, organizing committee, calendar

and deadlines and accommodation.

 

ENERGY & GEOSCIENCE INSTITUTE -

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

http://egi-geothermal.org/

Under the links on their main page they have a link to

the popular "Red Brochure" and a link to GIS

Projects. The "Red Brochure" is a publication that

has some general information on geothermal and is a

great publication to inform people about geothermal.

The link for GIS Projects includes a Geothermal

Internet map server, which was created by using

ArcIMS. This map server has several layers, which

can be visible or active. As you zoom into the map

you are presented with more layers. Some of the

layers include thermal springs; geothermal study

areas/fields, faults and surface geology, county

boundaries just to name a few that can be viewed.

You can also get information about areas they have

studied – an example would be the Dixie Valley area.

After getting information about the area, a link is

provided to another page which provides some

publications on the area, raster data for the area, plus

some of the ArcView files are available. Of course at

the time I looked at the pages not every area had all

this information.

 

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

GEOTHERMAL LABORATORY

http://www.smu.edu/geothermal/

They have a couple of databases on their website.

The Regional Geothermal Database of US is a

database of primarily regional or background wells

that has been used to determine the heat flow for the

United States. The Western Geothermal Areas

Database is a database of over 5000 wells in mainly

high temperature geothermal areas from the Rockies

to the Pacific Ocean; all wells within a geothermal

area are located where available; the majority of the

data are from company documents, well logs and

publications. Many of the wells were not previously

accessible to the public. They have also produced a

Geothermal Map of North America and they explain

where the information came from to produce the

map. They also have some publications that are

downloadable from their website and links to other

websites and information.

 

THE GLOBAL HEAT FLOW DATABASE OF

THE INTERNATIONAL HEAT FLOW

COMMISSION

http://www.heatflow.und.edu/index2.html

This website provides information on heat flow for

all over the world. They have maps and databases in

either Excel or ASCII format for most of the world.

The data presented on the maps use a color-coded

format using the visible light spectrum so that warm

colors (reds) indicate high heat flow and cool colors

(violet) indicate low heat flow. The spectral range for

each data map is 0 to 200 mW/ m^2 in intervals of 10

mW/ m^2. Heat flows greater than 200 mW/ m^2 are

assigned the warmest color.

 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY - GEOTHERMAL

ENERGY PROGRAM

http://www.eere.energy.gov/geothermal

Describes the U.S. DOE Geothermal Energy Program

and provides information and news on geothermal

energy. They also have a link on their website under

their tab "Information Resources" which provides

links to all the National Labs publications that are

available for downloading or information on how to

request the publications on their respective websites.

 

NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY

LABORATORY (NREL) GEOTHERMAL

TECHNOLOGIES PROGRAM

http://www.nrel.gov/geothermal/

The information on this website is organized by

topics such as technology description, program

summary, research and development projects, and

publications. The publications listed are

downloadable PDF files.

 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY - GEOTHERMAL

ENERGY TECHNICAL SITE

http://geothermal.id.doe.gov/

This website is maintained by Idaho National

Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL).

They have links to several publications including

their research program annual reports, articles and a

recent Dixie Valley Workshop. They also provide

information on the geothermal resource maps they

have produced and links to download the maps.

 

SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES:

GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

http://www.sandia.gov/geothermal/

https://cfwebprod.sandia.gov/cfdocs/GPI/

Sandia provides information on the different projects

they are working on and an email link to the person

in charge of the project. They also provide links to

several downloadable publications with more to be

added at a later date.

 

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY ASSOCIATION

http://www.geo-energy.org

The Geothermal Energy Association website includes

information on existing and planned power plants.

Some of that information includes contact

information and where they are located. Also

includes information on the next Geothermal Energy

Trade Show that runs in conjunction with the

Geothermal Resources Council Annual Meeting.

 

GEOTHERMAL-BIZ.COM

http://www.geothermal-biz.com/home.htm

This website provides development information for

the geothermal entrepreneur. They have information

on financing geothermal direct use and small-scale

power projects. They also provide information on

why geothermal energy should be used for state

agencies, electric power companies and

environmental groups. Their calendar of events is the

most comprehensive that I have found.

 

THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY -

GEOTHERMAL TRAINING PROGRAMME

http://www.os.is/page/unugtp

This website explains what the United Nations

University does and explains about their program

plus what training they provide and the selection

process for becoming a candidate.

A significant part of the practical training is done in

connection with the research projects of the Fellows.

In many cases the participants bring with them data

from geothermal projects in their home countries, but

sometimes the research projects are integrated with

geothermal exploration or utilization projects that are

in progress in Iceland at the time of training. The

project topic is always selected with respect to the

conditions of the home country of the participant.

Many of the project reports are written in such a way

that they serve as manuals for performing certain

measurements or interpretations dealt with in

respective reports.

The Training Programme publishes all the project

reports. Since 1994, the reports have been published

in the annual book "Geothermal Training in Iceland"

which has an international publishing code (ISBN

9979). Copies can be obtained upon request. The

reports are mailed regularly to former UNU Fellows

and many of the leading geothermal institutions in

the developing countries. UNU-GTP reports from the

years 1999 to 2003 are now available for

downloading from their website.

 

EUROPEAN GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

COUNCIL – EGEC

http://www.geothermie.de/egec_geothernet/menu/fra

meset.htm

This website has a tremendous amount of information

on their website, but it is easy to forget where you are

in their website. They have three different levels that

you can enter into (Beginners, Professional and

Scientist), but once you enter into a level you can

access information in all the levels.

The Beginners level includes information on what is

geothermal, why we should use it, geothermal short

course and basic information on the countries with

geothermal. The Professional level has information

on country overviews, project information, applied

technology, geological information, research

overview and future potential and developments.

The Scientists level includes information on research

projects, scientific papers and congress information.

 

GREAT BASIN CENTER FOR GEOTHERMAL

ENERGY

http://www.unr.edu/geothermal

 

CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION

http://www.energy.ca.gov

 

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF

CONSERVATION – DIVISION OF OIL, GAS

AND GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES

http://www.consrv.ca.gov/DOG/index.htm

 

NEW ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL

TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

ORGANIZATION (NEDO) - GEOTHERMAL

ENERGY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

http://www.nedo.go.jp/chinetsu/indexe.htm

This website provides information on the types of

projects that NEDO are involved in.

 

HOT DRY ROCK

Swiss Deep Heat Mining Project

http://www.dhm.ch/dhm.html

The website includes information on the Hot Dry

Rock geothermal energy program in Switzerland.

There is also information about the technology and

the ongoing development program, including photos,

maps, and diagrams.

 

European HDR project, Soultz-sous-Forets,

France

http://www.soultz.net/

This website provides basic information on the HDR

Soultz project and status of the current phase of the

project.

 

Stadtwerke Bad Urach (German)

http://www.geothermie.de/bad_urach.htm

This website is in German, but they provide pictures

and graphics of the project, plus there are links to

other HDR projects in the world.

 

CADDET

They provided information on full-scale commercial

geothermal energy projects and case studies.

http://www.caddet.co.uk/html/geo.htm

 

INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT ENERGY

ASSOCIATION

http://www.districtenergy.org/

 

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY

ENERGY PROGRAM

http://www.energy.wsu.edu/projects/renewables/geot

hermal.cfm

 

PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE

Geopubs – USGS Western Region Geologic

Publications

http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/

This webpage provides links to geologic publications

by the USGS on Scientific Investigation Reports and

Maps, Fact Sheets, Geologic Investigations Series

Maps, Circulars and Open-File Reports from 1988 to

2005, which can be viewed sorted by state or topic.

 

USGS Open-File Report 99-425 Geothermal

Industry Temperature Profiles from the Great

Basin

http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-

425/webmaps/home.html

This webpage provides a link to the database

produced from this report on the Great Basin and an

interactive map to access the well data including a

temperature log.

 

Geothermics

http://www.elsevier.com/locate/geothermics

This webpage link provides information on the

publication Geothermics. Information is also

included on how to submit a paper and how to

subscribe to the Journal. The table of contents and

abstracts to articles is provided free.

 

DOE's Scientific and Technical Information -

Information Bridge

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/

The website provides information on Department of

Energy research and development reports for such

topics as environmental sciences, energy

technologies, renewable energy and other topics.

 

Office of Scientific and Technical Information -

Geothermal Energy Technology

http://www.osti.gov/get/gethome.html

This website allows you to search for publications

from several different databases including Energy

Information Administration, Environmental

Protection Agency and National Technical

Information Service. I found the search mechanism,

though, on their website is a little hard to get the

publications you are trying to access.

 

Proceedings for Multiple Integrated Uses of

Geothermal Resources - International Geothermal

Conference - 2003

http://www.jardhitafelag.is/igc/nytt/

They have provided a website where the proceeding

of the conference can be downloaded. They can be

looked at by session or by author.

 

WEBSITES WITH PICTURES OR SLIDES

Geothermal Education Office

http://geothermal.marin.org/

The Geothermal Education Office has produced a

slide presentation with 122 slides. These can be

viewed on their website and they provide information

on the use of the slides.

 

National Renewable Energy Laboratory -

Photographic Information Exchange

http://www.nrel.gov/data/pix/searchpix.cgi?query=G

EOTHERMAL&display_type=tiled&max_display=2

0&search_home=searchpix_visual.html

This website has 620 pix images concerning

geothermal which can be viewed at 20 pictures on a

page with a description of each picture.

 

GEOTHERMAL ASSOCIATION WEBSITES

Most countries have some type of Geothermal

Association below are the ones that I have come

across in my research for this paper. I am sure there

are other association websites, but they might be in

their native language only and not English. Some of

the websites below are in both their native language

and English.

Australian CRC for Renewable Energy Ltd

http://acre.murdoch.edu.au/refiles/geo/text.html

Canadian Geothermal Energy Association

http://www.geothermal.ca/

German Geothermal Association Welcome to GtV

http://www.geothermie.de/

Hungarian Geothermal Association

http://www.deltasoft.hu/mgte/indexa.htm

Iceland Geothermal Association

http://www.jardhitafelag.is/english/index.shtml

Indonesian Geothermal Association

http://www.api.or.id/

Ireland Geothermal Association

http://www.feasta.org/documents/wells/contents.html

?seven/connor.html

Mexican Geothermal Association

http://www.ugm.org.mx/agm/

New Zealand Geothermal Association

http://www.nzgeothermal.org.nz/

Polish Geothermal Association

http://www.pga.org.pl/

Swiss Geothermal Society _SVG-SSG

http://www.geothermal-energy.ch/fr/svg/svg.htm

Turkish Geothermal Association

http://www.jeotermaldernegi.org.tr/

 

HEAT PUMP WEBSITES

Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium

http://www.geoexchange.org/

International Ground Source Heat Pump Association

http://www.igshpa.okstate.edu/

European Heat Pump Association

http://www.ehpa.org

GeoCool Lab - Department of Mechanical

Engineering - University of Alabama

http://bama.ua.edu/~geocool/

Earth Energy Society of Canada, Ground Source

Heat Pumps

http://www.earthenergy.ca/

The IEA Heat Pump Centre (HPC)

http://www.heatpumpcentre.org/