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Geomechanical Modeling and a Reservoir Modeler for Geysers Geothermal Field Supplementary Geothermal Project (SGP) from California Energy Commission for the DOE Original Geothermal Project (OGP): USC-et al-DOE -071509-2-2 ABSTRACT The proposed effort (to be referred to as the Supplementary Geothermal Project or SGP) will complement and enhance the ongoing Geothermal-DOE -071509-2-2 project (to be referred to as .the Original Geothermal Project or OGP). OGP is a joint initiative between the University of Southern California (USC), Geysers Power Company, (GPC) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), to develop improved methods for better characterization of fractures and fluid flow paths in an enhanced geothermal system (EGS). SGP will address the following two comments by the reviewers of the OGP, namely the addition of geo-mechanical modeling (task 1) and the addition of a reservoir modeler (task 2). In our formal response to these comments (see Appendix 1) we state that USC team has the capability and technical know-how necessary to address these issues. The funds we are requesting will be used to work on those two tasks. No external resources are going to be needed to accomplish these tasks. The ultimate objective of SGP is to enhance OGP by developing new geo-mechanical and reservoir modeler to test and better understand the relationship between fracture creation and changes in fluid pressure and temperature. The new concepts derived from SGP, as was the case with OGP, will be tested at the Geysers geothermal reservoir (Sonoma County, California). This will provide us with even better knowledge of the thermo-hydro-mechanical processes within Geysers geothermal reservoir. INTRODUCTION The proposed program will focus on predicting the complex interplay between micro-seismicity and fluid pathways. Detection of dynamic changes to seismic discontinuities and calibrating the model with the existing seismic data is of special interest in this work. Furthe