Dynamic Earth Energy Storage: Terawatt-Year, Grid-Scale Energy Storage using Planet Earth as a Thermal Battery (GeoTES): Seedling Project Final Report
Grid-scale energy storage has been identified as a needed technology to support the continued build-out of intermittent renewable energy resources. As of April 2017, the U.S. had approximately 24.2 GW of energy storage on line, compared to 1,081 GW of installed generation capacity (Litynski et al. 2006, Hellstrom 2003). This represents a large shortfall of the storage needed to stabilize the U.S. grids with the rising penetration of renewable energy. Our team proposed to address this shortfall through the storage of excess energy as geothermal brine in deep geologic formations. This concept, known as geologic thermal energy storage (GeoTES), relies on the storage of thermal energy in geologic formations for recovery and use in large-scale direct use geothermal applications. As such, GeoTES has the potential to play a significant role in meeting the energy storage shortfall in the coming decades by assisting with peak demand ramping, easing stress on transmission, providing regional storage to support sustainable direct use geothermal applications, and providing a variety of grid stabilization benefits due to renewable outages or inaccurate forecasting and rotor stability.
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AB - Grid-scale energy storage has been identified as a needed technology to support the continued build-out of intermittent renewable energy resources. As of April 2017, the U.S. had approximately 24.2 GW of energy storage on line, compared to 1,081 GW of installed generation capacity (Litynski et al. 2006, Hellstrom 2003). This represents a large shortfall of the storage needed to stabilize the U.S. grids with the rising penetration of renewable energy. Our team proposed to address this shortfall through the storage of excess energy as geothermal brine in deep geologic formations. This concept, known as geologic thermal energy storage (GeoTES), relies on the storage of thermal energy in geologic formations for recovery and use in large-scale direct use geothermal applications. As such, GeoTES has the potential to play a significant role in meeting the energy storage shortfall in the coming decades by assisting with peak demand ramping, easing stress on transmission, providing regional storage to support sustainable direct use geothermal applications, and providing a variety of grid stabilization benefits due to renewable outages or inaccurate forecasting and rotor stability.
AU - McLing, Travis
A2 - Wendt, Dan
A3 - Dobson, Patrick
A4 - Doughty, Christine
A5 - Spycher, Nic
A6 - Roberson, Dakota
A7 - McLaughlin, J. Fred
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO - 10.15121/1638710
KW - Energy storage
KW - Geothermal energy
KW - thermal energy storage
KW - GeoTES
KW - TES
KW - temperature
KW - porosity
KW - modeling
KW - steam
KW - Rankine cycle
KW - flue gas
KW - heat
KW - recovery
KW - thermal
KW - hydrology
KW - linear stability
KW - direct use
KW - goethermal
KW - brine
KW - grid stabilization
KW - injection test
KW - Weber Formation
KW - Weber sandstone
LA - English
DA - 2019/05/31
PY - 2019
PB - Idaho National Laboratory
T1 - Dynamic Earth Energy Storage: Terawatt-Year, Grid-Scale Energy Storage using Planet Earth as a Thermal Battery (GeoTES): Seedling Project Final Report
UR - https://doi.org/10.15121/1638710
ER -
McLing, Travis, et al. Dynamic Earth Energy Storage: Terawatt-Year, Grid-Scale Energy Storage using Planet Earth as a Thermal Battery (GeoTES): Seedling Project Final Report. Idaho National Laboratory, 31 May, 2019, GDR. https://doi.org/10.15121/1638710.
McLing, T., Wendt, D., Dobson, P., Doughty, C., Spycher, N., Roberson, D., & McLaughlin, J. (2019). Dynamic Earth Energy Storage: Terawatt-Year, Grid-Scale Energy Storage using Planet Earth as a Thermal Battery (GeoTES): Seedling Project Final Report. [Data set]. GDR. Idaho National Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.15121/1638710
McLing, Travis, Dan Wendt, Patrick Dobson, Christine Doughty, Nic Spycher, Dakota Roberson, and J. Fred McLaughlin. Dynamic Earth Energy Storage: Terawatt-Year, Grid-Scale Energy Storage using Planet Earth as a Thermal Battery (GeoTES): Seedling Project Final Report. Idaho National Laboratory, May, 31, 2019. Distributed by GDR. https://doi.org/10.15121/1638710
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_7336,
title = {Dynamic Earth Energy Storage: Terawatt-Year, Grid-Scale Energy Storage using Planet Earth as a Thermal Battery (GeoTES): Seedling Project Final Report},
author = {McLing, Travis and Wendt, Dan and Dobson, Patrick and Doughty, Christine and Spycher, Nic and Roberson, Dakota and McLaughlin, J. Fred},
abstractNote = {Grid-scale energy storage has been identified as a needed technology to support the continued build-out of intermittent renewable energy resources. As of April 2017, the U.S. had approximately 24.2 GW of energy storage on line, compared to 1,081 GW of installed generation capacity (Litynski et al. 2006, Hellstrom 2003). This represents a large shortfall of the storage needed to stabilize the U.S. grids with the rising penetration of renewable energy. Our team proposed to address this shortfall through the storage of excess energy as geothermal brine in deep geologic formations. This concept, known as geologic thermal energy storage (GeoTES), relies on the storage of thermal energy in geologic formations for recovery and use in large-scale direct use geothermal applications. As such, GeoTES has the potential to play a significant role in meeting the energy storage shortfall in the coming decades by assisting with peak demand ramping, easing stress on transmission, providing regional storage to support sustainable direct use geothermal applications, and providing a variety of grid stabilization benefits due to renewable outages or inaccurate forecasting and rotor stability.},
url = {https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1203},
year = {2019},
howpublished = {GDR, Idaho National Laboratory, https://doi.org/10.15121/1638710},
note = {Accessed: 2025-05-05},
doi = {10.15121/1638710}
}
https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1638710
Details
Data from May 31, 2019
Last updated May 17, 2021
Submitted Feb 10, 2020
Organization
Idaho National Laboratory
Contact
Ghanashyam Neupane
Authors
Original Source
https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1203Research Areas
Keywords
Energy storage, Geothermal energy, thermal energy storage, GeoTES, TES, temperature, porosity, modeling, steam, Rankine cycle, flue gas, heat, recovery, thermal, hydrology, linear stability, direct use, goethermal, brine, grid stabilization, injection test, Weber Formation, Weber sandstoneDOE Project Details
Project Name Geothermal Energy Storage
Project Lead Arlene Anderson
Project Number EE0034959