Das Geothermie-Startup Fervo Energy hat seinen bislang größten Vertrag bekannt gegeben: einen Meilenstein-Deal über 15 Jahre zum Verkauf von 320 Megawatt Strom an Southern California Edison.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2024-06-25/column-get-ready-california-geothermal-energy-has-finally-arrived-boiling-point?
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One of the difficulties with ending the fossil fuel age is transitioning workers and economic activity. Geothermal energy like Fervo, apart from all its other benefits, might help solve that problem. There’s a large cross-over in terms of skills between them and the oil and gas industry. They even sometimes use sites of former fossil fuel extraction for geothermal plants. Now they seem to have successfully demonstrated proof-of-concept it’s frustrating things aren’t moving faster with this energy source.
This is really hopeful because it means we can build geothermal plants in many many more locations. These plants provide reliable base load power to complement wind and solar which are variable. Volts podcast interviewed the founder and it was really interesting to learn about how it works and how close they are to being able to build more plants.