This repo hosts the geothermal techno-economic simulation tool GEOPHIRES.
GEOPHIRES combines reservoir, wellbore, surface plant, and economic and cost models and correlations to estimate the capital and operation and maintenance costs, instantaneous and lifetime energy production, and overall levelized cost of energy of a geothermal plant.
The latest version is v3.0, updated on July 1st, 2022.
- Koenraad Beckers - Heateon ([email protected])
- Kevin McCabe - National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) ([email protected])
- Malcolm Ross - Rice University ([email protected])
The tool is written in Python and open-source under the MIT license - see the LICENSE file for more information.