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GEOTHERMAL ENERGY DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ยง22
Regional Operational Research, DOE/DGE Region 5
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Support: DOE/DGE
K. Yu
January-March 1978
PROGRESS MONITORING AND
REPORTING SYSTEM AND DATA
BASE FOR DOE/DGE GEOTHERMAL
REGION 5
An essential component of the geothermal
planning and development efforts of DOE/DGE is
a comprehensive and flexible information system
to provide up-to-date monitoring of progress and
reporting of activities within Region 5. Con-
ceptually, a computer-based Progress Monitoring
and Reporting System could be the answer.
BACKGROUND
Since there is presently no official DOE/
DGE specification for such a progress monitoring
and reporting system, a major effort was aimed
at defining a system to monitor the progress of
geothermal energy development in a timely and
comprehensive manner.
The system should provide DOE/DGE planners
with various options for possible future pro-
grams and present a comprehensive status report
on the use of geothermal resources. Further,
the system should monitor contributory develop-
ments, including research and development, and
legal, economic, regulatory, and institutional
factors.
DISCUSSION
The work done on the conceptual organiza-
tion of the Progress Monitoring and Reporting
System and for the Region 5 data base has been
previously reported (Refs. 1 and 2). The main
effort during the current quarter was directed
toward identifying the details of the resource
data system so that file generation could begin.
As discussed in Ref. 2, the Region 5 portion of
the U.S. Geological Surveyโs (USGS) GEOTHERM
data file is to form the initial nucleus of the
known resource data file. This file has been
requested through J. Swanson of USGS/Menlo Park.
In addition, work was initiated during the quar-
ter on the basic interactive software package
that is to be used in the Progress Monitoring
and Reporting System. The same package will be
used in the Region 5 database management system.
The work is expected to continue.
Work on software for the Progress Monitor-
ing and Reporting System began at the end of the
Task completed
Job completed
entry
Task definition
Process data
File search
I/O results
and user
interaction
Fig. 1 Functional Organization of Progress Monitoring and Reporting
System. (78-1/31)
quarter. Figure 1 shows the expected functional
organization of the system. The main effort
during the next quarter will be to specify the
nature of the tasks to be included in the "Task
definition" box and to look at the correspond-
ing data-processing requirements.
REFERENCES
1. Section 24, Quarterly Report, Jul-Sep 1977,
APL/JHU EQR/77-3.
2. Section 18, Quarterly Report, Oct-Dec 1977,
AP1/JHU EQR/77-4.
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