The overlooked technology is getting a second life with high demand from the tech sector.

The Mountain West is positioning itself for a new kind of energy boom — one that taps the heat beneath our feet. Ahead of a ...

Four Western states are launching the Mountain West Geothermal Consortium to expand geothermal energy development.

America’s ambitions to harness geothermal energy just keep getting bigger. On Wednesday, a bipartisan group of Mountain West ...

A new wave of start-ups are trying to harvest emissions-free energy from inside the Earth, but the industry still faces ...

Two to three miles below our feet lies a nearly inexhaustible source of energy, and a number of startups are working to harness it to provide carbon-free electricity. Unlike solar and wind generation, ...

States across the U.S. are exploring whether abandoned oil and gas wells can be repurposed for geothermal energy production, ...

After several years of stagnancy, prospects for the geothermal power industry are heating up. Over the past year, it has seen a flurry of legislative boosts, an uptick of power purchase agreements, ...

Fervo Energy, which uses drilling techniques from the oil and gas industry to produce power from the earth’s heat, raised ...

The department said geothermal could soon be cost-competitive with other electricity sources. Geothermal energy produced from heat beneath the Earth’s surface could increase twentyfold in the U.S. by ...

Geothermal energy may not be a large contributor to the U.S. power mix—it provided less than 0.5% of total U.S. generation in 2015—but it is a reliable and dispatchable renewable energy source that ...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, resulting from the war in Iran, has pushed up crude oil prices exponentially. For any ...