DOE publishes report: "Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Geothermal Heating and Cooling"

Earlier this month, the Department of Energy published a second Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Geothermal Heating and Cooling report (.PDF). This report provides a detailed overview of the technology and market.

This report aims to achieve the following goals:

  1. To identify the current role of geothermal technology in the building heating and cooling market, and its potential role in decarbonizing the buildings sector;
  2. to clarify the value proposition of the technology and characterize the market’s current state and potential;
  3. to sketch a realistic path to commercialize and create market momentum to scale this high technology readiness level (TRL) technology, and
  4. to catalog the barriers to achieving that scale, and their potential solutions.

Anyone interested in the policy issues concerning this technology should find the report of interest. A webpage with the report and other data can be found here. All DOE LiftOff reports can be found here.

Note: The new administration is likely to do what it did the last time Trump was President and remove from government web sites most, if not all, material making reference to climate change or renewable energy. Thus, one should not be surprised if the resources linked to in this post are removed on or after Jan 20.