Enhanced Geothermal Systems Research, Development, and Demonstration

The summary for the Enhanced Geothermal Systems Research, Development, and Demonstration grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Golden Field Office, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Enhanced Geothermal Systems Research, Development, and Demonstration: A link to the full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is found by scrolling to the bottom of this page. Initial estimated total funding for this award is listed at $10,500,000 in FY'2008; with additional anticipated funds of $79,000,000 in FY'2009 and FY'2010, subject to change and Congressional appropriations. There are also distinctions between funding for two topic areas covered in this FOA. Please see the FOA for detailed funding information. Geothermal energy is an abundant, reliable, ubiquitous, base load, indigenous renewable energy source. Only the hydrothermal portion of the geothermal resource has been developed commercially around the world. There are a significant number of hydrothermal systems that do not have adequate productivity for economic production. To address the development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), DOE recognizes that there will be challenges requiring new technology development in the form of R D, field testing, and verification in order for EGS to enter the marketplace. DOE is seeking to partner with geothermal stakeholders to alleviate some of the risks of EGS development through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) covering two key topic areas. This integrated FOA will allow DOE to develop new sensors, down-hole tools, and mapping capabilities in order to operate at greater depths and higher reservoir temperatures, and to partner with geothermal stakeholders to increase the knowledge and understanding necessary for EGS to advance to a state of commercial readiness. Brief descriptions of both topic areas are as follows: Topic Area 1: Component Areas R D This topic area seeks projects that address key aspects of engineered reservoir creation, management, and utilization by developing tools and techniques useful to temperatures up to 300/degrees/C and depths as great as 10,000 m. Areas of interest include: zonal isolation; down hole pumps; fracture characterization; image fluid flow; tracers and tracer interpretation; high temperature logging tools and sensors; and stimulation prediction models. These technology improvements are discussed in greater detail in the report, An Evaluation of Enhanced Geothermal Systems Technology, posted on the DOE website: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/geothermal/pdfs/evaluation_egs_Tech_2008.pdf . Topic Area 2: System Demonstrations This topic area seeks projects that will successfully characterize a geothermal system with low natural productivity, develop a plan to stimulate the productivity of the system, stimulate a well in the system and monitor the productivity or injectivity of the well in relation to other wells available in the system. The projects will allow testing and validation of stimulation techniques for improving productivity of wells or increasing inter-well connectivity at existing geothermal fields. Use of available or experimental technologies from geothermal, petroleum or other relevant industries will be considered. Applications for this Funding Opportunity Announcement must be accessed, completed, and submitted through Grants.gov at http://www.grants.gov to be considered for award. 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