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Geothermal Technology Innovation

Advancing Geothermal Innovation and Deployment through Program Leadership and Project Support

Client:

U.S. Department of Energy – Geothermal Technologies Office

Challenge

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) is charged with advancing geothermal energy as a critical component of the nation’s energy dominance strategy. As GTO’s mission expanded to include cutting-edge innovations like Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), critical materials recovery, and distributed geothermal heating, it faced increasing demands to accelerate the development of geothermal energy through a complex portfolio of R&D projects to drive innovation and reduce deployment risk. This mission requires seamless coordination across scientific disciplines, stakeholder groups, and implementation pathways while maintaining agility in a rapidly evolving energy landscape.

Our Solution

Lindahl Reed provides flexible, on-demand scientific and technical expertise to enable GTO to advance its mission through cutting-edge research, development, and demonstration of geothermal energy technologies. Lindahl Reed delivers integrated services that span program planning, project execution, and stakeholder coordination, execution.  We empower DOE’s broader vision for an all-of-the-above energy strategy grounded in energy innovation as foundational to energy independence, security, and dominance. Key areas of support include:

  • Strategic Program Planning: Develop materials and frameworks to assist with GTO’s annual operating plan, R&D investment strategies, and alignment with DOE-wide clean energy goals.
  • Project Management: Lead and manage the full financial assistance lifecycle from concept development through award, execution, and closeout. Ensure cost, scope, and schedule performance; monitoring compliance and invoice processing; and recipient accountability to deliver high-impact research outcomes.
  • Technical Analysis and Validation: Review RD&D project data, performance metrics, and lab-developed innovations to guide GTO investment decisions.
  • Market Analysis: Identify regional market barriers and policy levers for scaling geothermal direct-use applications, including district heating and agricultural integration.
  • Technology Commercialization: Map commercialization pathways for EGS and geothermal heat pumps to support Energy Earthshots and resilience planning.

Results & Impact

  • Enhanced Strategic Direction: Developed strategies that enabled GTO to sharpen its technical focus areas, including EGS, critical mineral recovery, and distributed heating applications.
  • Informed Investment Decisions: Improved the consistency and rigor of project evaluations and technical risk assessments.
  • Expanded Stakeholder Engagement: Contributed to the development of partnerships across federal agencies, national labs, private sector innovators, and local governments.
  • Improved Portfolio Visibility: Empowered GTO to more effectively track and report on project outcomes, program contributions, and impact metrics in support of the Energy Earthshots Initiative and other DOE crosscutting efforts.
  • Enabled Market Access: Prepared materials that helped GTO better understand regional deployment potential and tailor programs to overcome adoption barriers in the built environment and rural communities.

Why It Matters

Lindahl Reed’s work with GTO validated emerging technologies, trained the future energy workforce, and removed key barriers to technology adoption, contributing to the nation’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to achieve national energy independence, security and dominance.

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What our Clients Say...

“I wanted to give a huge shout-out to [Lindahl Reed staff member] who really has been and continues to do heroic work for us in DMA. He’s doing a mountain of great work for us in DMA and I hope he is being recognized for that. Everything from his contributions to providing rigorous reviews on AOPs, his excellent technical reviews on reports, as well as his strategic thinking on our hybrids analysis portfolio, and the work he’s doing on data centers and many other initiatives, it is all really top-shelf.”

-Jeff Winick, GTO DMA Technology Manager, DOE
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  • Geothermal, Mrket Deployment, Project Management, Scientific and Technical Support, Strategic Planning, Technology Validation