Forbes
Summary
Roughly 200 miles northeast of Reno, a geothermal well named Project Red juts out above the northern Nevada desert. It may not look like much, but it could be a missing piece of America’s climate puzzle.
Last week Fervo Energy announced it successfully operated Project Red over a 30-day test period, generating 3.5 megawatts of clean electricity, more than any other enhanced geothermal plant in the world. Project Red expects to connect to the grid later this summer, delivering 5 megawatts to Google’s Las Vegas data center operations.
It’s small compared to the United States’ clean energy needs, but Project Red could be the start of something huge. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Enhanced Geothermal Shot Analysis predicts enhanced geothermal could reach 90 gigawatts of installed geothermal capacity by 2050, enough to power 65 million U.S. homes.
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