Geothermal
Geothermal power technologies, projects, potential, risks, and financing. Renewable Top Plant award winners.
![Groundswell of Support Heats Geothermal Innovation](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/fig2-drilling-rig-thor-iceland-drilling.jpeg)
There’s new interest in one of the world’s oldest resources, as governments and investors worldwide look for advanced ways to tap geothermal energy. Geothermal wells have been producing energy for…
SAN FRANCISCO, California – April 6, 2021 – GreenFire Energy Inc. and the Mitsui Oil Exploration Co., Ltd. (MOECO) today announced that they have entered an agreement for GreenFire Energy…
![Oil and Gas Majors Focus on Renewable Energy, Hydrogen, and Carbon Capture](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/fig1-windfloat-atlantic-floating-wind-farm.jpg)
Although you’d be hard-pressed to find an expert who believes oil and gas companies will abandon exploration and production operations anytime soon, several oil and gas majors are expanding their…
![The Connected Workforce](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cover-from-connected-workforce_whitepaper.jpg)
![GreenFire Energy Inc., EDC Collaborate to Generate Power from Idle Geothermal Well](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/leyte-mahanagdong.jpg)
SAN FRANCISCO, California – March 24, 2021 – GreenFire Energy Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with world geothermal leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC) to perform…
![Are 1-in-10-Year Events Really 1-in-10-Year Events Anymore?](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/shutterstock_1236384691_720.jpg)
When evaluating resource adequacy requirements, many power companies and grid operators have used a methodology that originated more than 70 years ago. This probabilistic reliability approach has generally performed adequately…
![DOE Awards $46 Million for Geothermal Projects](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Splash_Geothermal_Lithium_EnergySource_web.jpg)
A federal government geothermal program based at the University of Utah has chosen 17 projects that will receive up to $46 million from the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE). The…
![The Earth’s Energy: Switching Geothermal Power On](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/baseload-energy-geothermal-interview.jpg)
Although geothermal energy supplies a very small percentage of the electricity used around the world currently, geothermal advocates aren’t letting the seeming insignificance of the existing power generation capacity detract…