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A new technology developed by Quaise Energy has the potential to make geothermal energy more cost-effective and widely accessible, paving the way for a clean and sustainable energy future.
The startup’s planned 400-megawatt facility in Beaver County, Utah will use “enhanced geothermal” technology to harness hard-to-reach heat sources.
In Beaver County, Utah, a 38-megawatt power plant surrounded by bubbling mud pools and hissing steam vents has generated electricity for nearly 40 years using underground hot-water reservoirs. Most of America’s existing geothermal plants operate in similar ways: by tapping into heat sources that lie relatively close to the surface.
The Energy Department grant aims to cut the cost of new geothermal systems that generate electricity from heat miles underground