Hot Dry Rock Reservoir Development and Testing in the USA

Abstract

Two hot dry rock geothermal reservoirs have been created, or are being created, in hard impermeable rock at a site in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. In the first reservoir, created for research purposes, the technical feasibility of this new energy source was established during three years of intensive testing. Now the Phase II reservoir, intended as the first step in demonstrating commercial viability, is being created.