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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.
Beneath our feet lies a source of geothermal heat that can be tapped to provide heating and cooling to both residential and commercial buildings, manufacturing processes, greenhouses and aquaculture ponds.
The Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah is demonstrating stimulation techniques that connect a previously isolated injection well to the existing power production wells, which allows more electricity can be added to the grid.
University of North Dakota researchers successfully generated geothermal power from hot water that flows naturally from petroleum wells, which can help offset the need for costly transmission construction and reduce energy costs at remote oil fields.
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.
Geothermal heat pumps are a highly efficient technology for heating, cooling and water heating.
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.
Geothermal energy technologies under development at the Energy Department could accelerate the supply of more than 100 gigawatts of renewable energy to the grid.
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