America’s first ‘enhanced’ geothermal plant just got up and running

        November 28, 2023 Canary Media | Nevada | renewables: geothermal

Fervo Energy built a 3.5-MW EGS for a Google data centre in Nevada. The steam-generating, super-hot rock (376 F), setup taps deeper (>1 mile) heat than a hot spring or geyser via horizontal drilling (~1/2 mile) and fiber-optics. Geothermal is under 4 GW in the US (0.4%), but could provide 90 GW of grid power by 2050. Google aims to be carbon-free by 2030.