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Enhanced Geothermal Roadmap Workshops

By Chris de Morsella on June 22, 2011 Comments Off on Enhanced Geothermal Roadmap Workshops chris de morsella, Department of Energy, DOE, dry rock geothermal, EERE, EGS, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, enhanced geothermal, Fracking, Geothermal, geothermal eneryg, geothermal resources, Geothermal Technologies Program, Geothermal Technology, hydraulic fracturing, National Renewable Energy Lab, NREL, renewable energy

The Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy agency (EERE) has announced a roadmap workshop for enhanced geothermal. It is inviting a select — small — group of subject matter experts to take part in this roadmap workshop in order to help develop a plan for how the country can proceed in developing its dry rock geothermal resources and enhancing existing geothermal resources.

Geothermal Heats Up With $350M New Stimulus Funding from Government

By Chris de Morsella on June 2, 2009 1 Comment base load, clean energy, Clean tech, Department of Energy, DOE, EGS, Enhanced Geothermal System, geopressured fields, Geothermal, geothermal demonstration project, Geothermal Energy, geothermal energy development, geothermal energy production, geothermal resources, gigawatt, global economy, government funding, green careers, green jobs, hot rock geothermal, Massachusets Institute of Technology, MIT, National Geothermal Data System, Obama, oil and natural gas fields, president obama, Recovery Act, renewable energy, research and development, solar energy, Steven Chu, wind energy

The Obama administration announced $350 million in stimulus funds to help expand geothermal resources and break down technological barriers. This is a huge jump in funding, dwarfing all previous government commitments and is more than all the funding for geothermal energy put together over the last 20 years. It also represents a dramatic reversal of previous trends of diminishing funding for this often overlooked renewable energy sector.