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Huddlestone-Holmes, C. | Budd, A.R. | Gurgenci, H. | Hand, M. | Leary, P. | Moghtaderi, B. | Regenauer-Lieb, K. | Webster, R.
Abstract
The Australian geothermal industry has drilled into two deep Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) reservoirs and two deep sedimentary reservoirs. All four projects have encountered significant technical challenges in developing these resources which have added to the uncertainty around the development of other geothermal projects in Australia. The Australian geothermal research community has established the Geothermal Research Initiative (GRI) to provide a mechanism for coordinating research activities to address these challenges. The goals of the GRI are to assist the industry in demonstrating the technical viability of geothermal energy in Australia and to then develop technologies that help to drive down the costs of energy produced from geothermal resources, providing a secure, competitive energy source for the nation's future. An evaluation of the impacts of various technology improvements on reducing the levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) was made for the Australian EGS situation using the Geothermal Electricity Technology Evaluation Model. Technologies evaluated were doubling and tripling the flow, reducing drilling costs, increasing conversion efficiency, reducing parasitic loads, and supercritical cycles. Improving flow was found to have the biggest single impact on LCOE. A research portfolio comprising four programs has been devised to pursue funding - Optimising Resource Discovery, Reservoir Enhancement, Subsurface Systems Engineering and Technology in Context.
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