Five members of the Geo-Heat Utilization Center will be working on a grant from the Department of Energy--Division of Geothermal Energy during the 1977-78 fiscal year. They will be assisting the six northwestern states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming in the evaluation and utilization of their geothermal resources. The objective of the project is to develop realistic scenarios for the development and commercial utilization of geothermal energy resources (both electric and nonelectric) in the Northwest Region of the United States, evaluating the potential state and regional contributions to the national energy goals, and identifying the type, magnitude and scheduling of public action needed to support the materialization of the scenarios