Geo

Geothermal Drilling

Columbia University Granted Landmark Geothermal Drilling Permit in New York

Columbia University has been granted a permit to drill a closed-loop geothermal test bore to a depth of 800 feet (243 meters) by the New York State Department o…

Geothermal Heating Project

Drilling Starts for Massachusetts Pilot Geothermal Heating Project

Drilling equipment arrives on site of the Framingham Geothermal Pilot Program in Massachusetts (source: Eversource)Utility and services company Eversource has s…

Geothermal Power Project

Baringo-Silali Field Is Kenya's Next Big Geothermal Bet

Rig-up at Korosi prospect, Baringo-Silali, Kenya (source: GDC）With Olkaria firmly established and the development in Menengai off to a good start, the Baringo-Si…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal Project in Thurgau, Switzerland Gets Favorable Cantonal Vote

Märwiler Riet in Thurgau, Switzerland (source: Roman Schurte / flickr, Creative Commons)In June 2023, the population of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerlan…

Geothermal Drilling

Enteq Reports Successful Testing of Saber Directional Drilling Technology

Enteq Technologies (Enteq) has announced the successful completion of downhole drilling testing for the SABER Tool, the company’s game-changing alternativ…

Geothermal Power Plant

Kaishan to Acquire Kenyan Geothermal Developer Orpower 22

Kaishan Renewable Energy Development Pte Ltd. (Kaishan), a wholly owned subsidiary of the China-based Kaishan Group Co. Ltd., has announced the 100% acquisition…

Geothermal Power Project

Thermal Water Produced at Graben-Neudorf Geothermal Project, Germany

Thermal water has been pumped for the first time at the Graben-Neudorf geothermal project of Deutsche Erdwärme near Karlsruhe, Germany. The start of the di…

United Kingdom

Cheshire Geoenergy Observatory, UK Completes Drilling Phase

Drilling operations at the UK Geoenergy Observatory in Cheshire, UK (source: YouTube screenshot, British Geological Survey)The Cheshire Geoenergy Observatory of…

Geothermal Power Plant

Breakthrough Announced on Geothermal Cooling Project in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, UAE (source: Renek78, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)ADNOC and the National Central Cooling Company PJSC (Tabreed) have announced…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geophysical Survey by Geoalaska Ongoing in Augustine Island, Alaska

Tidal channels on Augustine Island, Cook Inlet, Alaska (source: flickr/ NOAA Photo Library, creative commons)GeoAlaska LLC has mobilized its geophysical survey …

Geothermal Power Project

ADNOC and Tabreed to Use Geothermal Energy to Power Masdar City

Adnoc and the National Central Cooling Company, better known as Tabreed, have announced the first project in the Gulf region that harnesses geothermal energy.Th…

Geothermal Power Plant

35-MW Menengai Geothermal Power Plant, Kenya Starts Grid Supply

Steam pipes at Menengai, Kenya (source: GDC)The 35-MW geothermal power plant of Sosian Energy in the Menengai geothermal field in Kenya has started supplying el…

Geothermal Power Project

Dublin, Ireland Study Identifies Geothermal Resource in Grangegorman

TU Dublin, Grangegorman Campus, Ireland (source: William Murphy / flickr, Creative Commons)Researchers from the Technological University (TU) Dublin and the Geo…

Energy Storage Project

Georgia Co-op to Test Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Storage in Pilot Project

(Snapping Shoals EMC CEO Shaun Mock, second from left, and Board of Directors Jake Carter, from left, Walter Johnson, Gene Morris, Lance Harper, Jeanette Berry,…

SMR

NRC Authorizes Fuel Loading and Operation at Vogtle 4

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized Southern Nuclear Operating Company to load fuel and begin operation of Vogtle Unit 4 in Georgia. This is the…