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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Geothermal (OG), formerly the Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO), publishes articles, blogs, success stories, highlights, news, and technical reports regularly. Please check back often to receive the latest information from OG.
By validating methods for recovering and purifying critical materials from geothermal processes, the economic and production benefits of geothermal energy projects can be improved, making them more cost-competitive at a wider range of locations.
The Energy Department is providing $4 million in funding to develop new technologies to locate and extract valuable rare earth elements from fluids produced by geothermal and other deep earth drilling.
And they’re off! The project teams selected for our Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) each hosted our geothermal experts at their candidate sites this fall. We’re calling it our road trip through the geothermal frontier.
The Geothermal Technologies Office won five awards at the Geothermal Energy Association’s (GEA) National Geothermal Summit on June 3, 2015, amidst a celebrated list of twelve sector trailblazers and industry standouts.
EERE Success Story—Geothermal Technology Breakthrough in Alaska: Harvesting Heat below Boiling Temperatures
The Geothermal Technologies Office is exploring direct use potential across the United States for a full spectrum of cascaded uses from lower tempe...
With the theme of GeoEnergy is Beautiful, the Energy Department's National Geothermal Student Competition in 2014 centered around public awareness. Student teams were asked to create a clear and engaging infographic that would explain geothermal energy...
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.
An AltaRock demonstration project will produce geothermal energy from hot, dry underground rock.
At the 37th Stanford Geothermal Workshop in Stanford, California, DOE released an updated Induced Seismicity Protocol, which supplements the existing International Energy Agency (IEA) protocol of 2009.
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