The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) for the INnovative Geothermal E…
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August 22, 2025The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) for the INnovative Geothermal Exploration through Novel Investigations Of Undiscovered Systems (INGENIOUS) project which aims to reduce the exploration risk for hidden geothermal systems in the Great Basin Region (GBR). The activities would include a combination of regional-scale data synthesis as well as detailed evaluation of several local-scale study sites that would involve new data acquisition and thermal gradient (TG) drilling.