Geothermal Energy: Delivering on the Global Potential

Geothermal Energy: Delivering on the Global Potential

Energy

After decades of being largely the preserve of countries in volcanic regions, the use of geothermal energy—for both heat and power applications—is now expanding worldwide. This reflects its excellent low-carbon credentials and its ability to offer baseload and dispatchable output - rare amongst the mainstream renewables. Yet uptake of geothermal still lags behind that of solar and wind, principally because of (i) uncertainties over resource availability in poorly-explored reservoirs and (ii) the concentration of full-lifetime costs into early-stage capital expenditure (capex).

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https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/166

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

2015

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