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On September 2, 2022, the Sooners Geothermal Team from the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energyat the University of Oklahoma (OU), celebrated their first-place win in the Geothermal Technologies Office’s (GTO) Geothermal Collegiate Competition (GCC) by hosting a community event. At the event, the team shared their geothermal project design as well as the benefits of geothermal energy with local stakeholders.
GTO awarded the OU team $10,000 for designing a system that repurposes six abandoned oil and gas wells in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to provide clean, renewable geothermal energy for local educational and municipal buildings, including sites within the Absentee Shawnee Tribe and Potawatomi Nation jurisdiction.
"Geothermal is the future,” said University of Oklahoma (OU) student Cesar Vivas at a geothermal community event hosted by the champions of the GCC. "It is the only renewable that can be a baseload source of power and is not limited by seasonal factors. You can develop geothermal energy anywhere, so I recommend anyone to apply to this competition."
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