Funding Will Help Advance Geothermal Deployment Nationwide and Tap into Geothermal Energy’s Potential to Provide 90 GW of Clean, Reliable Power WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that its Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) field laboratory in Milford, UT, has selected 13 … [continued]
Over the past few months, both the popular press and specialty publications in the renewable energy field have been abuzz with excitement about the commercialization of a new-ish geothermal energy technology by a Houston-based startup company, Fervo Energy. The approach, called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), uses hydraulic fracturing (fracking) techniques … [continued]
New DOE-funded center seeks to cut costs and improve carbon footprint of cement composites and other materials used in extreme geothermal environments
“The Volcano” captures geothermal energy in full dramatic, destructive mode, with eyewitness accounts from survivors of the 2019 Whakaari eruption in New Zealand.
The sleeping giant of geothermal energy in the US is about to get a wake-up call.
The flow of electrical current signals changes in fractures deep beneath the earth. By Christina Nunez Scorchingly hot granite deep underground can be tapped for energy by opening up cracks in the rock. This potential resource, known as enhanced geothermal energy, requires a clear sense of changes happening in the … [continued]
Research to Unleash Enhanced Geothermal Systems Can Unlock Innovative Carbon-Free Clean Energy Source
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded grants to scientists in 5 western states for research to develop the region’s huge geothermal potential.
US Energy Information Administration Principal Contributor: Fred Mayes Geothermal energy has been a small, but consistent, source of electricity in the United States since 1971, providing 0.4% of total U.S. generation in 2013. California is the site of most U.S. geothermal capacity, but since 2001 new geothermal capacity additions have increasingly … [continued]
The Energy Department just dropped $18 million on new cutting edge geothermal projects, adding a whopping 32 projects to the its existing lineup of 150.
