Biden Administration Bets $74 Million on ‘Enhanced’ Geothermal Power

Photo caption: A Super Pink Moon rises as a strong wind blows steam escaping from the Leathers Geothermal Facility, a power plant that taps into deep underground heat near the Salton Sea at the southern tip of the San Andreas Fault near Calipatria, Calif. Photo credit: David McNew / Getty Images. Article by Minho Kim and E&E News Scientific American – February 14, 2023.

The Department of Energy will offer $74 million to geothermal pilot projects that tap into heat several miles underground, in a bid to unlock massive amounts of renewable electricity. The funding, announced last week, will go to up to seven pilot projects. Funding recipients will test whether a new kind of geothermal technology called EGS — enhanced geothermal systems — could be an economic way to transform heat almost anywhere on the planet into electricity. […]

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