Geothermal Energy News

EERE Success Story—Percussive Hammer Enables Geothermal Drilling

The Energy Department's appropriations in play fairway analysis are helping the geothermal industry isolate drilling sites nationwide that are most likely to yield geothermal energy.

Geothermal energy water conservation is a vital concern for this renewable energy sector. Read more about how the Energy Department is undertaking safe practices to optimize water use.

A new DOE report, published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, highlights findings from a review of five policy mechanisms that have been...

Scientists at the Energy Department's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have made a commercially viable discovery: how to capture substa...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service Inyo National Forest on August 13 signed the Record of Decision approving a new 40-...

The Energy Department today issued a Geothermal Regulatory Roadmap that will help developers navigate regulatory requirements at every level of gov...

New geothermal prospects in the western United States show promise, according to the new 2013 Annual U.S. Geothermal Power Production and Development Report, published by the Geothermal Energy Association this week.

The Geothermal Technologies Program seeks non-prime mover technologies that have the potential to contribute to reducing the levelized cost of electricity from new hydrothermal development to 6¢/ kWh by 2020 and Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) to 6?...

At the newly reopened Geysers Geothermal Visitor Center, located in northern California at the largest geothermal complex in the world, the spotlight is on the future of geothermal power. Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) technology—the process of ex...