BLM Approves Major 2-GW Geothermal Project in Utah

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:41:45 +0000

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given the go-ahead for a major geothermal energy project in Utah. The agency announced final approval for Fervo Energy’s Cape Geothermal Power Project […]

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Google Could Use Small Nuclear Reactors to Power Data Centers

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:29:06 +0000

Google’s top executive confirmed the company is working on large-scale data centers that would use more than 1 GW of power. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, in a […]

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Sage Snags Air Force Contract for Geothermal Power Demonstration in Texas

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:11:34 +0000

The U.S. Department of the Air Force has awarded Sage Geosystems an initial $1.9 million contract to demonstrate its pioneering geothermal baseload power and energy storage system at an off-site […]

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Sage Geosystems says its geothermal baseload power and energy storage technology, validated in 2022, offers a scalable solution for harnessing geothermal energy nearly anywhere, promising reliable, sustainable power and enhanced grid stability with vast potential for global expansion. Courtesy: Sage Geosystems

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Sage’s First 3-MW Geothermal Power and Energy Storage Project Will Feed ERCOT

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:24:15 +0000

Sage Geosystems will build a first-of-its-kind 3-MW geothermal baseload power and energy storage system on land owned by San Miguel Electric Cooperative (SMECI) in Christine, Texas. The company plans to […]

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A conceptual visualization of a Sage Geosystems' 30-MW EarthStore energy storage facility. Courtesy: Sage Geosystems

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Sedimentary Geothermal Resources Offer a Bright Future for Geothermal Energy

Credit to Author: Kellen Gunderson| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 13:20:45 +0000

Next-generation, or “next-gen,” geothermal resources have the potential to increase geothermal power generation in the U.S. by twenty-fold by 2050. Next-gen geothermal concepts use technologies developed by the oil and […]

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POWER Digest [May 2024]

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 10:03:54 +0000

IRENA: 70% Global Renewable Deployment Led by Asia in 2023. Global renewable deployment over 2023 reached a total capacity of 3,870 GW—a new record in the power sector, according to the International

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Deep Geothermal Can Solve the Need for Baseload Power

Credit to Author: Igor Kocis| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:42:14 +0000

The Earth is a tremendous source of power. We’re sitting on a dynamic ball of fire, from which only a few regions have been able to extract energy since the […]

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EnergyX Aims New Solid-State EV Battery At The 500,000-Mile Car Of The Future

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:33:58 +0000

The US startup EnergyX is developing a sustainable lithium supply chain in support of a new 500,000-mile solid-state EV battery.

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Major Renewable Energy Projects Announced Across Western U.S.

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2023 17:35:56 +0000

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said the agency’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is developing 15 new renewable energy installations across the western U.S., including some that recently have begun […]

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Enel Sells Entire U.S. Geothermal Power Portfolio to Ormat

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:37:14 +0000

Stilwater is a “triple hybrid power plant” located in Churchill County, Nevada, about 60 miles from Reno, Nevada. It consists of a 33 MW geothermal plant, a 26 MWdc photovoltaic solar plant, a 27 MWdc photovoltaic solar plant, and a 2 MW solar thermal plant. When it came online in 2009, it was one of the world’s first plants to combine the continuous generating capacity of medium enthalpy, binary cycle geothermal power with solar photovoltaic and solar thermal. Courtesy: Enel

Italian power and gas giant Enel Group has agreed to sell its entire geothermal power portfolio in the U.S., along with several small solar plants, to Ormat Technologies for $271 […]

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