The Tool That Could Unlock the Potential of Geothermal Energy Deploying 60 gigawatts of geothermal electricity would be enough to provide clean, reliable power for 129 million American homes and businesses. A key factor to unlocking that amount of always-available geothermal energy could be through innovation in subsurface seismic sensors, … [continued]
DOE Requests Information on Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Investments to Spur Growth in Geothermal Energy Systems, A Source of Round-the-Clock Clean Power
Electric power sector generation from renewable sources totaled 795 million megawatt-hours (MWh) in the United States during 2021, surpassing nuclear generation, which totaled 778 million MWh. The U.S. electric power sector does not include electricity generators in the industrial, commercial, or residential sectors, such as small-scale solar or wind or … [continued]
Virtually all of those technologies are mature and robust today. We don’t need to invent a lot of new technology, we just need to deploy existing tech.
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released an in-depth report on the potential for clean energy development in Mexico. Mexico is replete with solar and wind resources and has remaining untapped potential in geothermal and hydropower. NREL’s Mexico Clean Energy Report concludes that, in light of … [continued]
Power to the Women: For Women’s History Month, NREL Celebrates the Powerful Women of Water Power This article is the first of two in a Women’s History Month series that showcases a handful of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) outstanding women researchers in water power. “Are women really interested in … [continued]
Berkeley Lab Leading Investigation to Better Understand the Salton Sea’s Geothermal Lithium Resources The Salton Sea geothermal field in California potentially holds enough lithium to meet all of America’s domestic battery needs, with even enough left over to export some of it. But how much of that lithium can be … [continued]
Drilling Efficiency Demonstrations Will Set the Stage for Transferring Lab Technology to the Marketplace WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $20 million in funding to lower the cost of developing geothermal energy by demonstrating faster drilling technologies to shorten the time it takes … [continued]
Geothermal: An Energy Story in Three Chapters Catch up by reading Chapter 1! Among numerous highlights in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s recently published Geothermal Power Production and District Heating Market Report, one in particular stands out: since 2019, 11 new geothermal power purchase agreements have been signed across four states. This … [continued]
With a recent $3.8-million refinancing of two district geothermal (also referred to as geoexchange) projects in British Columbia, Vancity Community Investment Bank (VCIB) has sealed its status as a leading Canadian financier for a technology that is ready to take the spotlight as industry and governments get serious about low- … [continued]
