1. TOPICS 1.Research and analysis needs for direct geothermal 2.Practical issues 3.Regulatory and development 4.Hurdles for community wide plants Wrap Up Impact? Government Involvement? Enduring economic benefit?

2. Research and analysis needs for direct geothermal (fundamentals, studies with known methods, technology needs, costly equipment…)

3. Practical issues to be addressed (cost competition, incentives…)

4. Regulatory and development issues and approaches that might help or hinder development (land use, permitting, financing…)

5. Hurdles for community-wide geothermal sourced energy plants (implementation, sale of waste heat, added property value, education of public, legislators, building owners…)

6. Wrap Up

7. Is this a “High Impact” problem? >1% impact on local goals Why or Why Not? Yellow

8. Will publicly funded geothermal efforts make a large difference relative to private sector efforts? If so, in what areas? If not, why? Orange

9. Does Geothermal Direct Use result in enduring economic benefit to US? How? Green

11. Research and analysis needs for direct geothermal (fundamentals, studies with known methods, technology needs, costly equipment…) Practical issues to be addressed (cost competition, incentives…) Regulatory and development issues and approaches that might help or hinder development (land use, permitting, financing…) Hurdles for community-wide geothermal sourced energy plants (implementation, sale of waste heat, added property value, education of public, legislators, building owners…)

12. Yellow Research and analysis needs for direct geothermal (fundamentals, studies with known methods, technology needs, costly equipment…) Pink Practical issues to be addressed (cost competition, incentives…) Green Regulatory and development issues and approaches that might help or hinder development (land use, permitting, financing…) Orange Hurdles for community-wide geothermal sourced energy plants (implementation, sale of waste heat, added property value, education of public, legislators, building owners…)