Large-Scale Power Production Potential on U.S. Department of Energy Lands

Alicen Kandt; Emma Elgqvist; Douglas Gagne; H. Walker; Jeff King; Jeremy Boak; Jeremy Washington; Cory Sharp; Michael Hillesheim

doi:10.2172/1411515

Large-Scale Power Production Potential on U.S. Department of Energy Lands

Alicen Kandt
, Emma Elgqvist
, Douglas Gagne
, H. Walker
, Jeff King
, Jeremy Boak
, Jeremy Washington
, Cory Sharp
, Michael Hillesheim

Colorado School of Mines

Research output: NLR › Technical Report

Abstract

This report summarizes the potential for independent power producers to generate large-scale power on U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) lands and export that power into a larger power market, rather than serving on-site DOE loads. The report focuses primarily on the analysis of renewable energy (RE) technologies that are commercially viable at utility scale, including photovoltaics (PV), concentrating solar power (CSP), wind, biomass, landfill gas (LFG), waste to energy (WTE), and geothermal technologies. The report also summarizes the availability of fossil fuel, uranium, or thorium resources at 55 DOE sites.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	226
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/1411515
State	Published - 2017

NLR Publication Number

NREL/TP-7A40-70526

Keywords

biomass
concentrated solar power
CSP
DOE land
exporting power
geothermal
large-scale power generation
photovoltaics resources on DOE land
REopt
solar
utility scale renewable energy
waste to energy
wind

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