The Department of Energy on Wednesday announced to selection of eight projects to receive a total of $11.5 million to advance research related to geothermal energy and carbon storage technologies. “The projects selected today will advance our ability to store captured carbon pollution from the burning of fossil fuels and improve our understanding of renewable geothermal resources – both of which will help us achieve our nation’s climate and clean energy goals,” said DOE Undersecretary for Science and Energy Franklin Orr said in a press release.
The selected projects are:
- Clemson University’s Robust In Situ Strain Measurements to Monitor CO2 Storage, receiving $1.78 million;
- The Colorado School of Mines’ Advancing the Integration of Geophysical and Reservoir Simulation Tools to Monitor CO2 Movement and Storage Permanence, receiving $1.11 million;
- GPUSA Inc.’s Automated High Power Permanent Seismic Source System for Long-Term Monitoring of Subsurface CO2 Containment and Storage, receiving $683,699;
- The University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center’s Field Demonstration of the Krauklis Seismic Wave in a Novel MVA Method for Geologic CO2 Storage, receiving $2.48 million;
- The Gulf Coast Carbon Center’s Validation of MVA Tools for Offshore Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Novel Ultra-High-Resolution 3D Marine Seismic Technology Integrated with Coring and Geochemistry, receiving $2.5 million;
- Baylor University’s Development of a Novel, Near Real Time Approach to Geothermal Seismic Exploration and Monitoring via Ambient Seismic Noise Interferometry, receiving $879,802;
- The University of Utah’s Geothermal Fault Zone Dilatancy and Fluid Imaging through Integrated Geophysical, Geological, Geochemical and Probabilistic Analysis, receiving $620,000; and
- S. Geothermal Inc.’s A Novel Approach to Map Geothermal Permeability Using Passive Seismic Emission Tomography and Joint Inversion of Active Seismic and EM Data, receiving $1.5 million.
