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The Office of Geothermal invests in advancing enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), a method for accessing geothermal energy which holds the potential to power tens of millions of American homes and businesses.

The Office of Geothermal supports research and development associated with advanced exploration technologies to help accelerate the discovery of new hydrothermal resources.

Low temperature geothermal resources offer opportunities for electricity production, heating and cooling, and other uses. Learn about these technologies and how the Office of Geothermal supports advances via R&D projects.

Visit this one-stop shop to see what the Office of Geothermal is working on. From the Salton Sea in California, to Utah’s Beaver County, to the U.S. Military Academy West Point in New York, the Office of Geothermal is bringing geothermal everywhere.

Drilling can represent more than half of the costs of a geothermal project. The Office of Geothermal funds research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) in geothermal drilling to help de-risk and substantially reduce costs to develop geothermal energy.

Learn about the Office of Geothermal's District-Scale Geothermal Energy Pilots initiative, formerly the Community Geothermal Heating and Cooling initiative, which is enabling communities to install community-scale geothermal heating and cooling solutions.

Designed to provide grants to ensure that the U.S. has a viable domestic manufacturing and recycling capability to support a North American battery supply chain