ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

geothermal power project co-developed with Fervo Energy in northern Nevada in the US has officially started supplying power to the local grid. The geothermal power facility in Nevada is the full-scale EGS pilot of Fervo Energy. Google has announced that the 3.5

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 29, 2025

DEEP Earth Energy Production Corp. DEEP) has announced a strategic collaboration with global energy technology company SLB (NYSE: SLB) to drive the development of Canadas first next-generation geothermal project, located in southeast Saskatchewan.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 7, 2025

Beaver County, Utah may, at first glance, seem an unlikely hub for breakthrough technical and commercial innovation in geothermal energy. However, geothermal startup Fervo Energy sees vast potential to generate commercial-scale geothermal energy in this remote valley nestled between three mountain ranges in southwest Utah.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Newly elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has submitted a series of energy reform initiatives to the Joint Committee on Energy and Legislative Studies of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. These changes aim to improve regulatory efficiency and strengthening energy planning.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 13, 2025

Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new report that highlights pathways for the expansion of geothermal heating and cooling. The full report, “Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Geothermal Heating and Cooling,” can be accessed via this link.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Stillwater Hybrid geothermal and solar – located in Churchill County, Nevada, the triple hybrid power plant consists of a geothermal binary unit, Solar PV plant, and solar thermal plant that sells its clean electricity under a long-term PPA with NV Energy. Ormat Technologies, Inc.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 10, 2025

Last week, Canadian geothermal developer DEEP Earth Energy Production Corp. Through this collaboration, we are creating opportunities for First Nations to participate in and benefit from the development of renewable energy and sustainable business ventures.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Cascade Institute , a research centre at Royal Roads University, has published a roadmap towards the deployment of ultradeep geothermal power technologies for commercial operations in Canada. The “Ultradeep Geothermal Research and Action Roadmap” can be accessed and downloaded here.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 13, 2024

Google has entered into an agreement with Nevada electric utility company and Berkshire Hathaway Energy subsidiary NV Energy to increase the supply of geothermal power to its data center operations from 3.5 MW to 115 MW in about six years. Source: Yahoo!

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Solar Industry

JANUARY 4, 2024

Ormat Technologies has closed the previously announced acquisition of a portfolio of geothermal and solar assets from Enel Green Power North America (EGPNA), a subsidiary of Enel SpA. The post Ormat Completes Asset Acquisition From EGPNA appeared first on Solar Industry.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 13, 2024

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) has announced a new funding opportunity under the Geothermal Resources’ Value in Implementing Decarbonization (GRID) program. A total of USD 7 million will be available under this funding.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 17, 2025

Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced a USD 30 million funding opportunity for research and development of technologies that enable the production of geothermal energy from superhot reservoirs (>375 C and >22 MPa) for 15 years or more.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Department of Energy (US DOE) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) have published a Request for Information (RFI) to evaluate novel approaches to superhot enhanced geothermal power for generating electricity and other uses. energy storage, critical minerals, hydrogen generation)?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 5, 2024

The Hawaii State Energy Office has announced plans of conducting a state-wide geothermal survey, starting in the island of Maui. A funding of $5 million, originally from COVID federal relief, has been appropriated the drilling of a slim hole in Maui which should provide data to better characterize a potential geothermal resource. “In

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 7, 2024

million in grant awards from the Colorado Energy Office for 35 innovative geothermal projects in the State of Colorado, multiple releases have been published providing more details on these projects. million Geothermal electricity generation – $3.22 Following news of the $7.7

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 8, 2024

We evaluated our existing database of power plants, compared it with numbers released from operators, national authorities, international reporting and more. The total installed geothermal power generation capacity at year-end 2023 stood at 16,335 MW, an increase of 208 MW. MW, excluding 101.9

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POWER Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

POWER is proud to partner with RE+ as we provide information and insight for attendees of the largest renewable energy event in North America. RE+ celebrates its 20th anniversary this […] The post Coming Together for Clean Energy: Supplement to POWER and RE+ appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

One of the biggest stories and most widely supported initiatives coming out of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (CO28) in Dubai, UAE is the pledge to triple the world’s installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. The case for geothermal Currently, geothermal accounts for only about 0.5%

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 12, 2023

DEEP Earth Energy Production and Ormat Technologies have signed a Notice to Proceed Agreement for a partnership to launch the first 5-MW conventional geothermal power plant in Canada. This development comes after years of collaboration between the two parties and is a notable first step to bringing the geothermal project online.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 27, 2025

A study presented by Dayo Akipinde and Erik Witter from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at the 50th Stanford Geothermal Workshop held in February 2025 provides an updated drilling cost curve based on recently reported drilling results by Utah FORGE, Fervo Energy, and Geysers Power Company.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 10, 2024

Discussions and stories on geothermal power plants typically focus on the turbines, who is supplying them, and what technologies they use. To learn more about this aspect of power plant operations, we talked with Jonas Burström , Sales Manager for Motors and Generators at electrification and automation leader ABB.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 27, 2024

The US Department of Energy has announced a total investment of USD 31 million for six projects that aim to advance geothermal energy deployment. Funding for these projects will be under the DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 22, 2024

has been selected to provide the engineering and procurement of power plant equipment for Fervo Energy ‘s initial 90-MW phase of the Cape Station geothermal project in Utah. The contract covers the installation of three generators with six ORC turbines, ensuring optimal energy conversion from geothermal sources.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Several research institutions and technology companies are working on ways to safely and economically harness these resources, which has the potential to accelerate the growth of geothermal energy capacity in the coming years. Both report on research showing that superhot geothermal “can be viable,” he says.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

The legislation amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to allow for new categorical exclusions for geothermal projects, under permitting requirements set by the National Environmental Policy Act. Geothermal energy is a vital tool to make America more energy independent and less reliant on our adversaries.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 29, 2024

(CTR) has broken ground on the construction of an integrated geothermal power plant and lithium production facility at the Salton Sea in California. This is the first of seven project stages building towards a multi-billion-dollar clean energy precinct, the “Lithium Valley Campus.” ” The 1.85-billion-dollar

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A new study done by a group of researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) looks at the technical and commercial viability of geothermal hybrid power plants. energy markets. can be accessed via this link: [link].

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 4, 2024

(Ormat) has closed the previously announced acquisition of a portfolio of geothermal and solar assets from Enel Green Power North America (EGPNA), a subsidiary of Enel SpA (ENEL.MI, LLC). Under the agreement, Ormat paid $271 million for 100% of the equity interest in the portfolio assets.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 27, 2024

Mt Princeton Geothermal (MPG) has announced a partnership with Western Geothermal and Reykjavik Geothermal for geothermal exploration and development in Chaffee County, Colorado. Princeton Geothermal, noted that this is the first foray of the Reykjavik Geothermal into a geothermal investment in the United States.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 13, 2024

A new legislation has been proposed in the US by House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Representative Andrea Salinas (D-OR) that seeks to support research, development, and testing of supercritical geothermal technologies. I’m proud to sponsor this bill and I thank Rep.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), Sage will evaluate the potential for geothermal baseload power generation to provide clean and resilient energy at the military base. military installations.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The IGA is continuing the webinar series with two upcoming sessions: Geothermal Heating & Cooling: A Deep Dive with Adele Manzella (22nd November 2023 14:00 UTC) Luis Gutierrez-Negrin Explores Geothermal Power Generation (24th November 2023 16:00 UTC) More details and registration for the two sessions can be done via this link.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

(Sage) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the California Resources Corporation (NYSE: CRC) to establish a collaborative framework for pursuing commercial projects and joint funding opportunities related to subsurface energy storage and geothermal power generation in California.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 13, 2024

In mid-2023, the PMDD approved funding of USD 15,000 to conduct a feasibility study for a geothermal power plant in South Presidio County. Source: Marfa Public Radio The post Presidio County, Texas shows promise for geothermal development first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Ignis H2 Energy Inc. Ignis Energy), a geothermal exploration and development startup, announced today the successful first closing of its Series A funding round, securing $12.5 Instead, it manages a risk-balanced portfolio of geothermal power-producing opportunities across high-enthalpy environments worldwide.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 22, 2024

The status of geothermal as the emerging renewable energy sector seems to have strengthened further following this year’s CERAWeek in Houston, Texas. The report shows how next-generation geothermal can be cost-competitive, with the potential to increase the United States’ geothermal energy production to 90 GW or more by 2050.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 23, 2025

reports the signing of a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Calpine Energy Solutions, one of North Americas largest energy suppliers. Source: Company release The post Ormat signs 15 MW PPA for Mammoth 2 plant with Calpine first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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