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GRC Bulletin January February 2019 GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES COUNCIL Vol. 48, No. 1 Bulletin January/February 2019 GRC Annual Meeting & Expo - 2018 -Geothermal’s Role in Today’s Energy Market Reducing the Costs of Geothermal Drilling RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP STAY connectedRENEW TODAY RENEWAL IS EASY! www.geothermal.org/membership.html STAY in TOUCH with GRC! Like us on Facebook: GRC and geothermal photos are posted www.facebook.com/ on Flicker: www.flicker.com/photos/ GeothermalResourcesCouncil geothermalresourcescouncil The Global Geothermal News is your GRC is on Pinterest: trusted source for geothermal news: www.pinterest.com/geothermalpower www.globalgeothermalnews.com Follow us on Twitter: @GRC2001 and #GRCAM2019 The online GRC Library offers thousands of technical GRC is on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ papers as downloadable PDF files. geothermalresourcescouncil www.geothermal-library.org Website: www.geothermal.org Phone: 530.758.2360 Email: [email protected] Fax: 530.758.2839 6 President’s Message by Andy Sabin Bulletin 8 Executive Director’s Message Vol. 48, No.1 by William Pettitt January/February 2019 10 Communication from the GRC by Ian Crawford 14 Inside Geothermal: North America, Central & South America, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Europe, Education, Science & Technology, Climate Change by Ian Crawford Geothermal Resources Council P.O. Box 1350 32 Geothermal History in the Making Davis, CA 95617-1350 - Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy Phone: 530-758-2360 Research at the Camborne School Fax: 530-758-2839 of Mines www.geothermal.org by Roger Parker Executive Director 34 Can Geothermal Well Costs be Will Pettitt, PhD, FGS Sufficiently Reduced to Drive [email protected] Industry Growth? Office & Events Manager by John P de Wardt Estela Smith [email protected] 40 Corporate Focus - Thermochem Communications Director/Editor 41 The 42nd GRC Annual Meeting & Ian Crawford [email protected] Expo - Part Two by Ian Crawford Membership/Office Associate Anh Lay 48 Publications, Websites, Video & [email protected] Maps Librarian by Ian Crawford Brian Schmidt [email protected] 51 Calendar of Events Graphic Designer/Advertising Chi-Meng Moua [email protected] The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) Bulletin (ISSN No. 01607782) is published as a service to its members and the public, with six issues per annual volume. The GRC is an international, non-profit educational association whose purpose is to encourage research and environmentally sound exploration, development, and utilization of geothermal-energy resources worldwide through cooperation with governmental agencies, academic institutions, and the private sector. The GRC Bulletin provides a forum for information transfer to the public and among professionals in many fields related to geothermal resources, including geology, exploration, development, electric-power production, and direct-use technologies. The views and opinions expressed by authors in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the GRC or its members. For changes of address COVER: Zunil Geothermal or membership information, please contact us. Plant (Guatemala), by Steven Fercho, Reno, Nevada, USA. Third Place in the 2018 GRC Geothermal Photo Contest. Advertisers Geothermal Resource Group.........Inside Front Kenai Drilling ................................................13 Thermochem, Inc. ..........................................4 January/February 2019 5 5 President’s Message by Andrew Sabin A Brief Retrospective and a Look Ahead 2018 was a year of transition for the (Ormat Technologies, Inc., Nevada, USA). Paul Geothermal Resources Council (GRC). Many was selected by the PC to be their representative of you know that we filled a year-long vacancy to the Board, per the newly modified structure for GRC’s Executive Director (ED) by hiring Dr. of the GRC. While it was difficult to lose 6 William Pettitt last summer. Will has already Board members with their decades of collective brought a tremendous amount of knowledge, experience, these new Directors bring their professionalism and passion to the GRC and we own unique experiences, diversity and views look forward to continued excellence from Will to the Board. I know that they will serve our and his staff in everything that GRC does. community well in the coming years. We also consolidated the GRC and the The final piece of a transition initiated in former Geothermal Energy Association (GEA). 2018 involves a look inward by our Board. The The roles and responsibilities of the former outcome may yield changes to the future size GEA now reside in the Policy Committee (PC), (smaller), composition (required diversity) a special committee within the GRC. Now and terms (term limits) of current and future both major American geothermal associations Directors. The GRC Board of Directors feels are under one roof. This allows us to have a strongly that all of these steps - a new ED, stronger and more unified voice. We should be the GRC-GEA consolidation and Board able to more efficiently and effectively serve restructuring - are required if we are going our community. Both the hiring of Will and the to best serve our community and meet their GRC-GEA consolidation took a tremendous evolving demands. amount of time and work. On behalf of the Please contact Will, me or any other Board community that we serve, I want to thank member if you have any questions, thoughts or our entire Board of Directors, led by outgoing suggestions for how we might better support President Maria Richards, the GRC staff and and serve you and this vitally important everyone else involved in both of these hard- industry. won efforts. I am certain that this work will pay dividends for all of us. ******* We are also welcoming 6 new members to 2019 also brings renewed hope, continued our Board of Directors: Andrea (Andy) Blair growth and more hills to climb for GRC (Upflow Ltd., New Zealand); Lara Owens and our entire industry. In that vein, I’d like (Ormat Technologies, Inc., Nevada, USA); Robert to recommend New Year’s reading for our Podgorney (Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, geothermal community. USA); Jefferson W. Tester (Cornell University, You may recall a few months back when New York, USA) and Hildigunnur (Hidda) the White House released the Climate Science Thorsteinsson (Reykjavik Energy, Iceland). Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment The sixth new Board member is Paul Thomsen (NCA4), vols. 1 and 2 hoping that a Friday release 6 GRC Bulletin l www.geothermal.org date, typically a slow news consumption day, in our community chose to rely on hunches, would minimize the report’s dramatic message beliefs and biases (especially if sourced from in the public’s eye. As it turns out, this ruse some breathless television “news” personality) wasn’t even necessary. Very few will even try to in his daily decision-making, he would quickly look at this massive, 2 volume report much less become unemployed and likely unemployable. read it. They should. And so should you. Here’s Climate science data and geothermal data are why. compatible and should be. 1. An understood selling point of geothermal 4. Our industry, like climate science, has a power is that it displaces carbon that would messaging problem. Too few in the public as otherwise be released into the atmosphere well as key decision makers truly understand by the combustion of fossil fuels. An equally the value or the applicability of geothermal. understood phenomenon is that many of Minimally, each of us should strive to be as our elected officials and at least one popular well-educated as possible about what we are “news” network work diligently to deny and and what our potential can be. In addition misrepresent science, especially climate change to baseload power, potentially dispatchable science. A combination of reasons including power and competitive economics, our message money and integrity (or lack thereof) explains has to include why the relative cleanliness of this behavior but that is beside the point. Our geothermal matters. charge as scientists should be to understand, embrace and discuss this science for the sake of 5. Finally, mid-career and younger our industry, not to mention our way of life on employees plus college students are our this planet. We should never undersell the total future. They understand and generally accept value of geothermal. conclusions of climate change science. It is important to them. If we can’t fully understand, 2. This report is easy to read, comprehensive acknowledge and embrace the value of climate and incredibly alarming. The training and change science in our own profession, then culture of most scientists in our industry is these future employees and future leaders will captured by what you hear in our National seek out an industry that does. We need to Parks, “Take pictures and leave footprints.” acknowledge the future by understanding and Our community should not allow this culture discussing the science in front of us. and geothermal science to be decoupled from climate change science, regardless of how You can easily politically unpalatable it can be for some. When download both volumes you understand and discuss science you are of this report at https:// not taking a side in an argument, you are doing www.globalchange.gov/ your job. nca4. The NCA4 is not something you’ll read in 3. The NCA4 illustrates data trends, presents one sitting or even one conclusions and most importantly, provides month. Bookmark this site references so that everything in this report can and take small bites
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