Sustainable operation of geothermal power plants: why economics matters

Abstract This paper, based on a novel hybrid techno-economic model for geothermal power plants with endogenized plant lifetime, investigates the economic feasibility of a sustainable exploitation of geothermal resources for electricity generation. To this end, standard terminology and classification...

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Main Authors: Fynn V. Hackstein, Reinhard Madlener
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-03-01
Series:Geothermal Energy
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40517-021-00183-2