With fiber-optic well sensors and real-time dispatch, Google turns geothermal into a high-precision tool for AI-scale data ...

Ormat’s Crescent Valley project was approved amid a push by the Trump administration to accelerate permitting for energy ...

A beam of energy hit the slab of rock, which quickly began to glow. Pieces cracked off, sparks ricocheted, and dust whirled ...

Companies are using advanced technology to drill many miles underground to reach the hot rock below. Their quest is to make ...

The well reached a bottomhole temperature of 520° F as the operator significantly reduced ultradeep geothermal time. The Fervo EGS project achieved a maximum bit run length of 3,290 ft, a maximum ...

Image: Cornell University’s 144-foot-tall geothermal drill rig. Source: Cornell Earth Source Heat In 2022, Cornell University, supported by a $7.2 million Department of Energy grant, drilled a ...

It took some time to find architects and contractors familiar with geothermal, but eventually a system was installed that utilizes 88 vertical closed loops at a 150-foot depth. Luther’s Office of ...

In hot weather, those systems pump a “geothermal fluid” — generally a refrigerant like in an air conditioner — to pick up ...

Google partnered with clean energy startup Fervo on a new geothermal project in Nevada that will send electricity to the grid that serves two of Google’s data centers. Image: Google.

The United States has enough geothermal energy to power the entire country. Some are trying to unlock it by using techniques from the fracking boom. By Brad Plumer Brad Plumer traveled to Beaver ...

Power transmission towers line a street in Redondo Beach, Calif., on Sept. 7, 2022. With record demand on power supplies across the West, California snapped its record energy use with 52,061 ...

The Utah Office of Energy Development is poised to ink a contract to tap into a study for geothermal resources for development at the Point of the Mountain — the former state prison site.