The heat will fuel a new type of power plant: an enhanced geothermal plant. Most power plants work by converting a turbine’s rotating energy into electricity. Many of the world’s energy ...

There are three varieties of geothermal power plants: dry steam, flash steam, and binary cycle. Dry steam power plants use underground steam resources, piping steam from underground wells to a ...

Even when the geology is ideal, it can take years to get a green light to drill,' Rep. Celeste Maloy said on the challenges ...

As governments and private firms worldwide invest heavily in research and development into alternative clean energy sources, geothermal energy is attracting greater attention. Although still ...

Phoenix, for example, could add 3.8 gigawatts of data center capacity without building a single new conventional power plant. Geothermal resources have enormous potential to provide consistent power.

But nine years ago, local leaders took a risk that few other hot spring towns in Japan were willing to accept: They built a geothermal power plant to turn their precious hot spring water into a ...

Explore the series here. Fred Henderson doesn’t expect to live long enough to see the completion of Colorado’s first geothermal power plant. At 89 years old, the retired geologist is trying to ...

Two power producers have started the construction of electricity plants with a combined capacity of 70 megawatts (MW) at the Menengai geothermal fields that are set to start feeding the national ...