Items Tagged with 'geothermal energy'

The power source is gaining ground from emerging technology, cost reduction, private investment and possible buy in from the new administration.

When interviewing to work for Eversource Energy in 2020, Nikki L. Bruno was asked if she had experience in the geothermal field. Bruno said no, but offered that she’d taken geology classes and could learn.

It’s serendipitous for the Microsoft Thermal Energy Center team that young Stuart Yanow decided to take his older sister’s advice and major in mechanical engineering rather than health sciences.

In addition to the complexity of integrating advanced energy technologies such as geothermal into a century-old historic building, the project was made even more complicated by the need to move a 12,000-lb drilling rig below grade into a subfloor below the basement with no elevator service.

Fervo Energy has construction underway on 631-acre project, including on 148 acres of public land, and announced two purchase agreements with Southern California Edison for 320 MW of eventual output.

Eversource utility-scale thermal energy pilot links residential and commercial buildings in Framingham to provide heating and cooling

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm touts a critical need for energy transition at CERAWeek by S&P Global gathering but oil and gas CEOs say energy security needs to be a bigger global priority. 

The Microsoft Thermal Energy Center, a groundbreaking geothermal heating and cooling system that serves the buildings of the tech giant’s 72-acre East Campus Modernization outside Seattle, was truly two exotic jobs wrapped into one.

Drilling rigs are punching the last of 320 boreholes this summer on a full city block along the East River, where Lendlease is building a 789,000-sq-ft mixed-use complex of five buildings in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood.