TY - DATA AB - The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) was tasked with developing a metric in 2012 to measure the impacts of RD&D funding on the cost and time required for geothermal exploration activities. The development of this cost and time metric included collecting cost and time data for exploration techniques, creating a baseline suite of exploration techniques to which future exploration cost and time improvements can be compared, and developing an online tool for graphically showing potential project impacts (all available at http://en.openei.org/wiki/Gateway: Geothermal). This paper describes the methodology used to define the baseline exploration suite of techniques (baseline), as well as the approach that was used to create the cost and time data set that populates the baseline. The resulting product, an online tool for measuring impact, and the aggregated cost and time data are available on the Open Energy Information website (OpenEI, http://en.openei.org) for public access. AU - Jenne, Scott AU - Young, Katherine AU - Thorsteinsson, Hilgigunnur DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory DO - KW - geothermal KW - exploration KW - cost KW - time KW - tool KW - risk KW - metric KW - exploraton LA - English DA - 2013/01/01 PY - 2013 PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory T1 - Geothermal Exploration Cost and Time Metric UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/ ER -