Of all the technological progress of the past few decades, there is a good argument to be made that a series of fossil fuel industry innovations that helped spark the U.S. shale oil boom have had the ...

Technology pioneered by the oil and gas industry is fueling a new type of carbon-free power plant. Southern California Edison, one of the country’s largest power companies, has just announced a deal ...

Companies like Fervo and Sage Geosystems are proving that a fracking approach to geothermal energy can extract much more power than traditional methods – this research proves that the concept could do ...

Fervo's "next-generation geothermal" technology has proven itself in testing, becoming the most productive enhanced geothermal plant in history. The company hopes its approach will radically expand ...

Fervo is building the world’s largest enhanced geothermal project to deliver clean energy to homes and data centers. By harnessing heat from deep below ground, Fervo promises 24/7 clean geothermal ...

The company’s Cape Station is a bellwether for whether advanced geothermal can deliver carbon-free power around the clock. The advanced geothermal industry is heating up, with Fervo Energy announcing ...

Fervo Energy drills deep wells and pumps water into them. The water grows hot from the heat of the earth, then Fervo pumps it back to the surface, where a turbine converts that heat to electricity. On ...

The United States has enough geothermal energy to power the entire country. Some are trying to unlock it by using techniques from the fracking boom. By Brad Plumer Brad Plumer traveled to Beaver ...

The Biden administration just approved a massive geothermal energy project in Utah, marking a significant advance for a climate-friendly technology that is gaining momentum in the United States, the ...

US startups are developing pressurized water storage systems using hydraulic fracturing technology to store renewable energy from solar and wind. This technology offers a potential alternative to ...

If Fervo Energy’s field results work at commercial scale, it could become cheaper and easier to green the grid. In late January, a geothermal power startup began conducting an experiment deep below ...

Southern California Edison, one of the country’s largest power companies, has just announced a deal to buy electricity from a seven-year-old start-up called Fervo Energy. Like other energy companies, ...