Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goal of this Agreement is to advance the current state for imaging subsurface flow paths, barriers and heterogeneity, and delineating steam and water saturated zones in operating geothermal reservoirs through an integrated approach that combines time-lapse acquisition and advanced processing of magnetotelluric and passive seismic data. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefit of lowering the cost of geothermal energy, a non-greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting source of clean energy. This reduction in cost is realized by this technology providing improved accuracy in the location of productive areas for siting xxxxx and by avoiding drilling hazards. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by assisting the continued growth of California’s broad portfolio of renewable energy, including geothermal, as required to achieve the goals of SB 350. This growth can be accelerated through the development of innovative technologies and by narrowing the gap of these technologies to commercialization. This project will demonstrate the advantages of concurrently acquiring magnetotelluric and passive seismic data over a 2 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) requires projects funded by the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) to result in ratepayer benefits. The California Public Utilities Commission, which established the EPIC in 2011, defines ratepayer benefits as greater reliability, lower costs, and increased safety (See CPUC “Phase 2” Decision 00-00-000 at page 19, May 24, 2012, xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/PublishedDocs/WORD_PDF/FINAL_DECISION/167664.PDF). producing geothermal reservoir in a time-lapse sense, jointly inverting these time-lapse data for images of resistivity and seismic velocities using workflows and algorithms that enforce structural similarity constraints between the different physical properties, and subsequently correlating the spatio-temporal information in the joint-inversion geophysical images to working reservoir models to update these models and to adjust injection and production rates.
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Samples: Epc Agreement
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goal of this Agreement is to advance examine the current state technical and economic challenges and solutions specific to providing grid-responsive, resilient, zero-carbon housing for imaging subsurface flow pathsRoosevelt Village and similar low-income affordable households. The proposed research will optimize technologies and approaches to simplify the pathway to an all-electric future. It will demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of shifting to all-electric and grid interactive designs and establish standardized configurations of building construction, barriers energy efficiency, load management and heterogeneitysizing for on-site generation and energy storage technologies. It will ensure that Roosevelt Village will be healthy and functional during grid outages, capable of islanding from 4-9, and delineating steam interact with the grid during other real-time events, and water saturated zones in operating geothermal reservoirs through an integrated approach that combines time-lapse acquisition present persistent GHG, energy and advanced processing of magnetotelluric and passive seismic datacost savings. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the following ratepayer benefit of lowering the cost of geothermal energy, a non-greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting source of clean energy. This reduction in cost is realized by this technology providing improved accuracy in the location of productive areas for siting xxxxx and by avoiding drilling hazards. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by assisting the continued growth of California’s broad portfolio of renewable energy, including geothermal, as required to achieve the goals of SB 350. This growth can be accelerated through the development of innovative technologies and by narrowing the gap of these technologies to commercialization. benefits: This project will demonstrate enhance the advantages notion of concurrently acquiring magnetotelluric buildings as grid assets (SB 250) by demonstrating a suite of emerging technologies—distributed energy resources (DER) platforms, behavior-based technologies, battery and passive seismic data over a thermal storage, and solar photovoltaics (PV)—and integrate with the state’s 2030 renewable energy generation and energy efficiency targets. Since many of the same solutions are transferable to 2 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) requires projects funded by the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) to result in ratepayer benefits. The California Public Utilities Commission, which established the EPIC in 2011, defines ratepayer benefits as greater reliability, lower costs, and increased safety (See CPUC “Phase 2” Decision 00-00-000 at page 19, May 24, 2012, xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/PublishedDocs/WORD_PDF/FINAL_DECISION/167664.PDF). producing geothermal reservoir xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/PublishedDocs/WORD_PDF/FINAL_DECISION/167664.PDF). existing buildings, the project will also bolster the urgent effort to retrofit housing in a timethe state. This analysis will highlight the trade-lapse senseoffs between technology solutions in terms of capital cost, jointly inverting these time-lapse data for images of resistivity operating and seismic velocities using workflows maintenance costs, environmental and algorithms that enforce structural similarity constraints between the different physical propertiesgrid impacts, and subsequently correlating physical limitations. If this model can be scaled to similar buildings, then the spatiobenefit to California ratepayers will be very high. Benefits include: • Lower greenhouse gas emissions by advancing the concept of deep energy retrofits paired with microgrids and grid-temporal information interactive buildings from a promising schematic design, based on preliminary research and analysis, to a detailed engineering master plan for the Build Phase that is widely replicable for mixed- use housing in CA. • Improve electricity reliability by quantifying the jointbenefits of a building capable of islanding from the grid during the afternoon 4-inversion geophysical images 9 peak, reserve a minimum 20% of the building’s peak load to working reservoir be managed or curtailed in response to grid conditions, enable residential end uses to be controllable through EMS and respond to real-time pricing signals • Improve resiliency by focusing on a design that keeps community support infrastructure as well as the homes themselves healthy and functional during climate-related hazard events, including outages. • Promote a culture of dialogue among stakeholders and validate the design with an evaluation involving underrepresented and impacted community members • Reduce planning uncertainty by standardizing different configurations of building construction, energy efficiency and interconnection practices for pv generation and battery storage that can accelerate innovative financing strategies and business models with co-benefits for all stakeholders. • Lower the costs by helping developers make more informed design decisions, reducing the risk of unanticipated costs during construction. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to update these models technological advancement and breakthroughs to adjust injection overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by evaluating a variety of high impact, market-ready technologies, many of which are currently being underutilized in multifamily applications. While the project will largely rely on readily available technologies, integrating and production ratesoptimizing those technologies to achieve the grid interactivity goals of the agreement is something that has not been done before. The key area of innovation for this project will be in developing an integrated design approach that balances the need to achieve the aggressive carbon and resiliency goals of the agreement with the need to develop feasible and practical solutions that can be cost effectively implemented at scale right now. Some of the key technologies and systems that will require unique approaches to integrations include:
1. Equitable Design: Given the nature of housing needs, we take seriously the prospect of flipping a historic norm in which vulnerable and marginalized communities are excluded from the design process and benefits of technological progress, especially when it comes to grid-interactive design and advanced controls. Both the design and delivery phases will include a series of efforts to address the interests of residents, staff, and neighbors, providing a critical window into factors of resident experience and perception that often go overlooked.
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Samples: Epc Agreement
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goal goals of this Agreement is are to: • Speed adoption of Recipient’s lighting technology with agile, efficient, scalable manufacturing processes. • Scale-up Recipient’s lighting technology from prototype to advance pilot production. • Reduce the current cost and complexity of configurable lighting systems. • Improve user experience and safety in lit spaces. • Enable greater market penetration of solid-state for imaging subsurface flow paths, barriers and heterogeneity, and delineating steam and water saturated zones in operating geothermal reservoirs through an integrated approach that combines time-lapse acquisition and advanced processing of magnetotelluric and passive seismic datalighting. • Meet California’s lighting energy use goals. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefit benefits of lowering the cost lower costs and increased safety. Lower costs will be realized as a result of geothermal energy, a non-greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting source of clean energy. This reduction reduced electricity use in cost is realized by this technology providing improved accuracy in the location of productive areas for siting xxxxx and by avoiding drilling hazards. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by assisting the continued growth of California’s broad portfolio of renewable energy, including geothermal, as required to achieve the goals of SB 350. This growth can be accelerated through the development of innovative technologies and by narrowing the gap of these technologies to commercialization. This project will demonstrate the advantages of concurrently acquiring magnetotelluric and passive seismic data over a lighting that 2 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) requires projects funded by the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) to result in ratepayer benefits. The California Public Utilities Commission, which established the EPIC in 2011, defines ratepayer benefits as greater reliability, lower costs, and increased operates at higher utilization efficiency. Up to 10.2 TWh of annual electricity use can be saved in California IOU service territories through the use of Recipient’s lighting technology. Improved safety (See CPUC “Phase 2” Decision 00-00-000 at page 19, May 24, 2012, xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/PublishedDocs/WORD_PDF/FINAL_DECISION/167664.PDF). producing geothermal reservoir in is a time-lapse sense, jointly inverting these time-lapse data for images result of resistivity and seismic velocities using workflows and algorithms better lighting distributions that enforce structural similarity constraints between the different physical propertiescan minimize hazards, and subsequently correlating eventually eliminate the spationeed to use ladders or cherry pickers to re-temporal information aim ceiling-mounted lights. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by enabling the rapid deployment of a whole suite of innovative lighting technology products focused on utilization efficiency. These luminaires can achieve more than 1.5 times greater improvement in light utilization efficiency, with widespread deployment saving up to 10.2 TWh annually. The valuable new functionality of the jointluminaires will also help accelerate conversion to light emitting diode lighting, bringing additional near-inversion geophysical images to working reservoir models to update these models and to adjust injection and production ratesterm energy savings.
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Samples: Grant Agreement
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goal goals of this Agreement is are to: • Analyze different compliance pathways, with and without energy storage, to advance achieve the energy and efficiency requirements and goals of new residential construction under Title 24; • Quantify the impact coordinated operation of localized energy storage can provide to mitigate demand surges and benefit the utility and the grid, at the distribution level; • Report on potential areas of improvement of the current state for imaging subsurface flow pathsbuilding code; and • Suggest a prioritization to further develop control and optimization strategies, barriers and heterogeneity, and delineating steam and water saturated zones in operating geothermal reservoirs through an integrated approach that combines time-lapse acquisition and advanced processing as needed to improve grid harmonization of magnetotelluric and passive seismic datathe building code. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefit benefits of lowering greater electricity reliability and lower costs by providing T24 and Joint Appendix 12 (JA12) recommendations that promote future solar and storage combinations optimized to provide reliable back-up power during outages and lower costs through programed discharge of the cost battery during times of geothermal energypeak energy rates. Storage provides back-up power for essential needs during outages at the installation site. For customers with critical loads like medical or communication equipment, a nonhaving battery energy storage to provide backup power can be lifesaving. Integrating solar with battery energy storage can also protect customers during extended public safety power shutoff (PSPS) events. In October 2019, these events impacted nearly two million Californian customers during two separate weekends. If programmed properly, the energy storage device is also capable of charging during the day and discharging according to higher-greenhouse gas priced time of use (GHGTOU) emitting source of clean energy. This reduction in cost is realized rates established by this technology providing improved accuracy in the location of productive areas for siting xxxxx and by avoiding drilling hazardslocal utility, saving the customer money at the meter. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by assisting the continued growth of California’s broad portfolio of providing expert recommendations derived from field demonstrations to enhance current T24 building code and JA12 to better suit California plans for decarbonization through renewable energy, including geothermal, as required to achieve the goals of SB 350. This growth can be accelerated through the development of innovative technologies and by narrowing the gap of these technologies to commercialization. This project will demonstrate the advantages of concurrently acquiring magnetotelluric and passive seismic data over a 2 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) requires projects funded by the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) to result in ratepayer benefitsgeneration. The expected deployment of more than 3,500 MW of residential and non-residential energy storage in five years in California Public Utilities Commissioncould yield a CO2 emission reduction of over 390,000 metric tons of CO2, which established based on the EPIC Energy Storage Association's estimates of CO2 emission reductions from U.S. energy storage deployment (2019)4. Potential new homes built in 2011alignment with a better-developed T24 building code and JA12 favoring controllable energy storage could also yield benefits to grid infrastructure and prepare for ancillary grid impacts as a result of increased renewable generation. At the distribution level, defines ratepayer benefits as greater reliabilityleveraging onsite energy storage devices improves power quality through voltage and frequency support and increases the potential integration of renewables. At the bulk level, lower costs, storage mitigates the impacts of fluctuations in electricity supply by renewable energy injections on the power grid and increased safety (See CPUC “Phase 2” Decision 00-00-000 at page 19, May 24, 2012, xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/PublishedDocs/WORD_PDF/FINAL_DECISION/167664.PDF). producing geothermal reservoir in a time-lapse sense, jointly inverting these time-lapse data thereby reduces the system's need for images of resistivity and seismic velocities using workflows and algorithms that enforce structural similarity constraints between the different physical properties, and subsequently correlating the spatio-temporal information in the joint-inversion geophysical images to working reservoir models to update these models and to adjust injection and production ratesoperating reserves.
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Samples: Epc Agreement
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goal goals of this Agreement is are to: • Establish best practices for manufacturing of magnetocaloric materials at higher scales for a variety of compositions, while optimizing equipment and efficiency. • Manufacture magnetocaloric materials in the form of spheres and plates. • Demonstrate in=house manufacturing capabilities to advance the current state for imaging subsurface flow paths, barriers and heterogeneity, and delineating steam and water saturated zones in operating geothermal reservoirs through an integrated approach that combines time-lapse acquisition and advanced processing accommodate 1kg/day production of magnetotelluric and passive seismic datamagnetocaloric materials. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will is intended to result in the ratepayer benefit benefits of lowering greater electricity reliability and lower costs by reducing the cost energy demand. In California, air conditioning and refrigeration account for about 26% (20,130 gigawatt-hours) (GWh) of geothermal energy, a non-greenhouse gas residential energy consumption and about 24% (GHG20,061 GWh) emitting source of clean energycommercial energy consumption. This GE&R asserts that magnetic refrigeration can provide up to 50% reduction in cost energy consumption. GE&R believes that with the availability of GE&R’s magnetocaloric materials, these systems are likely to move into production within 3-5 years. The grant is realized by this technology providing improved accuracy intended to result in eelectricity demand reduction, particularly during peak demand times on warm days for air conditioning, and thus should reduce strain on the location of productive areas for siting xxxxx and by avoiding drilling hazardsgrid resulting in greater reliability. Lower grid investment costsshould lower ratepayer costs. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will is intended to lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by assisting the continued growth of California’s broad portfolio of renewable energy, including geothermal, as required enabling magnetic refrigeration systems to achieve the goals of SB 350move from prototype to production. This growth can be accelerated through the development of innovative technologies and by narrowing the gap of these technologies to commercialization. This project will demonstrate the advantages of concurrently acquiring magnetotelluric and passive seismic data over a Traditional vapor 2 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) requires projects funded by the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) to result in ratepayer benefits. The California Public Utilities Commission, which established the EPIC in 2011, defines ratepayer benefits as greater reliability, lower costs, and increased safety (See CPUC “Phase 2” Decision 00-00-000 at page 19, May 24, 2012, xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/PublishedDocs/WORD_PDF/FINAL_DECISION/167664.PDF). producing geothermal reservoir xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/PublishedDocs/WORD_PDF/FINAL_DECISION/167664.PDF). 3 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) also requires EPIC-funded projects to lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers that prevent the achievement of the state’s statutory and energy goals. compression refrigeration systems which require HFCs cannot meet California’s future energy efficiency and GHG reduction requirements for refrigeration and air conditioning. According to the GE&R, its proprietary material compositions are the only known magnetocaloric effect materials that will meet both cost and performance requirements to be viable in a time-lapse sensemass production of magnetic refrigeration systems. According to GE&R, jointly inverting these time-lapse data they are the highest performance magnetocaloric effect materials available on the market. GE&R will develop the processing procedures to manufacture our materials to accommodate 1kg/day. GE&R believes that production at this scale will allow for images of resistivity end users to develop and seismic velocities using workflows and algorithms that enforce structural similarity constraints between the different physical propertiestest magnetic refrigeration prototypes, and subsequently correlating the spatio-temporal information in the joint-inversion geophysical images to working reservoir models to update ultimately move these models and to adjust injection and production ratessystems into production.
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Samples: Grant Agreement
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goal goals of this Agreement is to advance are to: • Develop an optimized approach for the current state for imaging subsurface flow pathsdeployment of APMD technology on a large scale in the educational environment that encompasses outreach, barriers education, site identification, technology installation, measurement and heterogeneityverification, and delineating steam end-user satisfaction analysis. • Generate a large, complex and water saturated zones diverse dataset and analysis that accurately demonstrates the energy efficiency potential of successful APMD technology deployment on a large scale in operating geothermal reservoirs through an integrated approach the educational environment and ability to achieve approximately 10 GWh/year of savings for all deployment sites. • Accelerate broad market adoption of APMD technology by providing a comprehensive dataset and study that combines time-lapse acquisition will identify energy savings, cost effectiveness, and advanced processing of magnetotelluric other benefits to be incorporated into promotional materials and passive seismic dataoutreach activities targeting IOUs, technology vendors and property owners in educational, institutional, and commercial buildings in California. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefit benefits of lowering the cost of geothermal energygreater electricity reliability and lower costs, a non-and reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting source of clean energyemissions. This reduction in cost is realized will be achieved by this technology providing improved accuracy reducing plug-load electricity consumption at community college campuses in the location State of productive areas California by approximately 10,000,000 kWh/yr by the end of the project. By reducing demand, this project will directly increase the reliability of the State’s electric grid. Reducing demand on the State’s grid will lessen the requirement for siting xxxxx utilities to add both generation and distribution capacity, and increase electric system reliability. These savings will ultimately translate to ratepayer savings, and a reduction of over 3,000 metric tons per year in GHG emissions.
Following a successful demonstration of mass AMPD deployment, general market adoption will be accelerated. If the technology were deployed at all California community college campuses served by avoiding drilling hazardsIOUs, at similar penetration projected for this project, resultant savings would increase to 36,000,000 kWh or more. Accelerated market adoption in the State’s broader education and commercial sectors will further extend the potential savings. These savings will have similar electricity reliability and cost-lowering benefits to ratepayers. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by assisting the continued growth developing optimal methods to deploy large quantities of California’s broad portfolio of renewable energy, including geothermal, as required to achieve the goals of SB 350. This growth can be accelerated through the development of innovative technologies and by narrowing the gap of these technologies to commercialization. This project will demonstrate the advantages of concurrently acquiring magnetotelluric and passive seismic data over a 2 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) requires projects funded by the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) to result in ratepayer benefits. The California Public Utilities Commission, which established the EPIC in 2011, defines ratepayer benefits as greater reliability, lower costs-reducing APMD systems, and increased safety (See CPUC “Phase 2” Decision 00accelerating market transformation and adoption of the technology through a successful large-00-000 at page 19, May 24, 2012, xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/PublishedDocs/WORD_PDF/FINAL_DECISION/167664.PDF). producing geothermal reservoir in a time-lapse sense, jointly inverting these time-lapse data for images of resistivity and seismic velocities using workflows and algorithms that enforce structural similarity constraints between the different physical properties, and subsequently correlating the spatio-temporal information in the joint-inversion geophysical images to working reservoir models to update these models and to adjust injection and production ratesscale demonstration.
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Samples: Grant Agreement
Goals and Objectives of the Agreement Agreement Goals. The goal of this Agreement is to: • Develop an AI system capable of automatically performing site-specific techno-economic analyses and front-end engineering on hundreds of potential industrial decarbonization measures with minimal user input • Validate that the AI can learn from expert users by teaching it how to advance analyze two real industrial facilities • Validate the current state for imaging subsurface flow pathsspeed, barriers and heterogeneityaccuracy, and delineating steam user-friendliness of the AI through early pilot testing with untrained non-expert users and water saturated zones real data from the two industrial facilities. An untrained non-expert user should be able to produce a customer-worth report in operating geothermal reservoirs through an integrated approach less than four hours with limited data in-hand. • Validate that combines time-lapse acquisition and advanced processing of magnetotelluric and passive seismic the AI can learn from prior projects by testing this capability with simulated data. Ratepayer Benefits:2 This Agreement will result in the ratepayer benefit benefits of lowering greater electricity reliability, lower costs, and increased safety. Reliability will be achieved by facilitating the cost of geothermal energy, a non-greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting source of clean energy. This reduction in cost is realized by this technology providing improved accuracy in the location of productive areas for siting xxxxx and by avoiding drilling hazards. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the achievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by assisting the continued growth of California’s broad portfolio of renewable energy, including geothermal, as required to achieve the goals of SB 350. This growth can be accelerated through the development of innovative technologies and by narrowing the gap of these technologies to commercialization. This project will demonstrate the advantages of concurrently acquiring magnetotelluric and passive seismic data over a addition 2 California Public Resources Code, Section 25711.5(a) requires projects funded by the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) to result in ratepayer benefits. The California Public Utilities Commission, which established the EPIC in 2011, defines ratepayer benefits as greater reliability, lower costs, and increased safety of base load to the grid (See CPUC “Phase 2” Decision 00via industrial electrification), support for industrial-00-000 at page 19, May 24, 2012, xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xxx/PublishedDocs/WORD_PDF/FINAL_DECISION/167664.PDF). producing geothermal reservoir in a time-lapse sense, jointly inverting these time-lapse data for images of resistivity scale load shifting and seismic velocities using workflows and algorithms that enforce structural similarity constraints between the different physical propertiesdemand response, and subsequently correlating facilitating distributed generation. Cost savings will be achieved via energy efficiency and fuel-switching projects. Increased safety will be achieved via improved air quality for communities adjacent to industrial facilities. Technological Advancement and Breakthroughs:3 This Agreement will lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers to the spatioachievement of the State of California’s statutory energy goals by developing an AI system for front-temporal information end engineering of industrial decarbonization projects. The cost, time and effort required for front-end engineering is currently a major barrier to achieving statutory GHG reductions specified in AB32. The AI will overcome this barrier by reducing the jointcost of front-inversion geophysical images end engineering by a factor of 10x (from $50,000 to working reservoir models $5,000) and accelerating the timeline by a factor of 4x (from 4 months to update 1 month). The AI will achieve these models results through a novel application of KRR and ML, allowing the AI to adjust injection learn from present and production ratespast industrial decarbonization projects and automatically apply that knowledge to future projects.
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Samples: Grant Agreement