Webinar – CO2 Plume Geothermal: Broadening the geothermal resource base
Webinar - CO2 Plume Geothermal: Broadening the geothermal resource base with subsurface energy and CO2 storage
Carlo Cariaga
13 Jan 2025
Join us for a webinar on the 17th of January on CO2 Plume Geothermal, a novel concept optimizing geothermal energy extraction with combined CO2 storage.
This coming Friday, 17 January 2025, we are proud to be hosting another edition of the Focus on Geothermal Webinar series featuring Carlo Cariaga of ThinkGeoEnergy and Martin Saar of ETH Zürich. This week’s webinar will be on “CO2 Plume Geothermal: Broadening the geothermal resource base with subsurface energy and CO2 storage.”
Date: 17 January 2025
Time: 14:00 CET / 08:00 ET
Registration: Click here to register
Speaker: Martin Saar, Chair of Geothermal Energy and Geofluids, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Integrating CO2-Plume Geothermal (CPG) with Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) enhances both geothermal energy extraction rates and the capacity and safety of geological CO2 sequestration. Moreover, the CPG technology can be expanded to enable power-grid-scale energy storage.
In this presentation, Prof. Saar will introduce CPG and the CPG Consortium, established in March 2023 within the Geothermal Energy and Geofluids group. The consortium aims to support industry stakeholders in deploying the CPG technology effectively.
Prof. Saar founded the Geothermal Energy and Geofluids group at ETH Zurich in 2015. The group investigates reactive subsurface fluid and energy transfer, ranging from geothermal energy extraction and conversion to CO2 sequestration and combinations thereof. One such combination is CO2-Plume Geothermal (CPG), which he named and co-invented. This concept combines CCS with geothermal energy extraction, resulting in full CCUS, as all initially injected CO2 is still geologically sequestered.
Prof. Saar received his MSc. in Geology in 1998 from the University of Oregon and his Ph.D. in Geophysics in 2003 from the University of California – Berkeley. After a Turner Postdoc position at the University of Michigan until 2004, he was Professor and Gibson Chair of Hydrogeology and Geofluids at the University of Minnesota until arriving at ETH Zurich ten years ago in January 2015.
