Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis

Post Date

January 24th 2014

Application Due Date

April 11th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

DE-FOA-0000841

CFDA Number(s)

81.087

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement
Grant
Other

Funding Activity Categories

Energy

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $0

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

Reducing risk through improved drilling success rates is critical to securing financing and ultimately lowering overall costs for developing geothermal power projects. This success hinges on knowledge of the geological, geophysical, and geochemical characteristics that indicate geothermal favorability; along with improved coverage of data that are signatures of the key properties of temperature, permeability, and fluid. To this end, GTO is interested in projects that apply innovative exploration technologies to collect new data and/or apply new analysis methods to extract new value from data. Successful applications will focus on one of the regions identified in GTO?s Data Gap Analysis, and include a significant component of uncertainty analysis that directly demonstrates potential or real impact on success rates. Projects should lead to the development of a Geothermal Play Fairway, which details a specific region constrained through a favorabl e combination of structural and hydrological conditions.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Energy

• Office:

  Golden Field Office

• Agency Contact:

  Andrew Rittgers, Grants Management Specialist
  playfairway@go.doe.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  For questions on the content of this FOA

• Agency Email Address:

  playfairway@go.doe.gov

• More Information:

  https://eere-exchange.energy.gov