Geothermal Energy

Featured article: Sustainable operation of geothermal power plants: why economics matters

Operating a geothermal plant for electrical resources requires making crucial decisions affecting the life of the investment. Pushing to maximize profits too soon can mean an early decline in the system. In this paper, Hackstein and Madlener investigate walking this tightrope between short-term profitability and long-term sustainability. They have developed a tool for the optimal utilization of geothermal resources and apply it to two different kinds of geothermal systems.

Thermal modeling and simulation of a single-flash geothermal power plant involving non-condensable gas: a case study of Kamojang geothermal field in Garut, West Java, Indonesia

Authors: Candra Mecca Sufyana, Fiki Taufik Akbar and Wahyu Srigutomo

Content type: Research 20 March 2023
Optimized geothermal energy extraction from hot dry rocks using a horizontal well with different exploitation schemes

Authors: Guoshu Huang, Xiangyun Hu, Huolin Ma, Liang Liu, Jian Yang, Wenlong Zhou, Weiyang Liao and Bai Ningbo

Content type: Research 22 February 2023
Exergy analyses and optimization of a single flash geothermal power plant combined with a trans-critical CO₂ cycle using genetic algorithm and Nelder–Mead simplex method

Authors: Jian Huang, Azher M. Abed, Sayed M. Eldin, Yashar Aryanfar and Jorge Luis García Alcaraz

Content type: Research 8 February 2023
Advances in the modeling of the Iberian thermal lithosphere and perspectives on deep geothermal studies

Authors: M. Torne, I. Jiménez-Munt, A. M. Negredo, J. Fullea, J. Vergés, I. Marzán, J. Alcalde, E. Gómez-Rivas and C. García de la Noceda

Content type: Research 4 February 2023
How temperatures derived from fluid flow and heat transport models impact predictions of deep geothermal potentials: the “heat in place” method applied to Hesse (Germany)

Authors: Nora Koltzer, Judith Bott, Kristian Bär and Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth

Content type: Research 27 January 2023

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Performance of geothermal power plants (single, dual, and binary) to compensate for LHC-CERN power consumption: comparative study

Authors: M. El Haj Assad, E. Bani-Hani and M. Khalil

Content type: Research 15 September 2017
Design of earth–air heat exchanger system

Authors: Trilok Singh Bisoniya

Content type: Research 12 September 2015
Analysis of geothermal energy as an alternative source for electricity in Colombia

Authors: Samuel S. Salazar, Yecid Muñoz and Adalberto Ospino

Content type: Research 23 November 2017
A systematic review of enhanced (or engineered) geothermal systems: past, present and future

Authors: Katrin Breede, Khatia Dzebisashvili, Xiaolei Liu and Gioia Falcone

Content type: Review 5 November 2013
Numerical analysis for ground temperature variation

Authors: Raviranjan Kumar Singh and Ram Vinoy Sharma

Content type: Research 1 November 2017

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Article collections

On the future development of superhot and supercritical geothermal systems
Geothermal Energy
Edited by: Egbert Jolie, Hiroshi Asanuma and Guðmundur Ómar Friðleifsson
Published: 15 February 2021

From Exploration to Operation - Research Developments in Deep Geothermal Energy
Geothermal Energy
Edited by: Alexandra Kushnir and Markus Loewer
Published: 3 July 2019

Integrative Approaches in Deep Geothermal Science
Geothermal Energy
Edited by: Carola Meller and Emmanuel Gaucher
Published: 2 June 2018

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Blog post by EiC Luis C.A. Gutiérrez-Negrín

Please have a look at the blog post of our Editor-in-Chief Luis C.A. Gutiérrez-Negrín about COVID-19 and Sustainable Energy.

Aims and scope

Geothermal Energy – Science, Society and Technology focuses on fundamental and applied research needed to deploy technologies for developing and integrating geothermal energy as one key element in the future energy portfolio. Contributions include geological, geophysical, and geochemical studies, exploration of geothermal fields, reservoir characterization and modeling, development of productivity-enhancing methods, and approaches to achieve robust and economic plant operation. Geothermal Energy – Science, Society and Technology serves to examine the interaction of individual system components while taking the whole process into account, from the development of the reservoir to the economic provision of geothermal energy.

Geothermal Energy & Geothermal Energy Science merger

Geothermal Energy merged with the open-access journal Geothermal Energy Science on 1 July 2017. For previous articles published in Geothermal Energy Science please visit the homepage.