Western Geothermal Tracker

Terravanta Power Systems broke ground on a $75M, 200K-square-foot facility in Loxley, Alabama, to manufacture advanced screw and turbine expander...

Federal Permitting Reform

• 🔥 Bipartisan Opportunity: Congress has a rare chance to reform federal permitting after decades of gridlock, with one...

Texas, New Mexico, and Alabama have enacted legislation to simplify conversion of abandoned oil and gas wells for geothermal heat, power, and storage,...

The 29-year average for U.S. mine permitting highlights a broken system that also stalls geothermal, with one public-lands project triggering six...

Montana's energy task force is collaborating with the ETIC on a regulatory framework for geothermal development as part of broader PSC reforms and an...

The Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining will review multiple bills targeting geothermal development on federal lands.

• S. 4383...

Drilling Technology

• 🔥 Fervo Sawtooth 7 Record: Fervo Energy drilled its Sawtooth 7 well from spud to total depth in 21 days, reaching 19,448 ft...

New Mexico awarded $650,000 to HeatFlow (Surface Transfer, Inc.) to develop Trilateral Flash Cycle turbines that replace costly Organic Rankine Cycle...

Fervo Energy drilled its Sawtooth 7 well from spud to total depth in 21 days, achieving a 70% time reduction on its deepest, hottest, and longest well...

Fervo Energy achieved a new drilling record at its Cape Station project in Beaver County, Utah, completing the Sawtooth 7 well from spud to total...

Advanced Industrial Zones offer states a model to align energy and economic policy, enabling innovation-production corridors that co-locate clean...

Drilling Technology Funding

• 🔥 Hephae Energy Technology Raise: Hephae Energy Technology raised $17.8 million for ultra-high temperature robotics...

Hephae Energy Technology's $17.8 million raise supports development of ultra-high temperature robotics and drilling systems, directly targeting access to deeper, hotter geothermal resources.

Industry experts highlight geothermal's dual role in data center cooling and on-site power, with strong western U.S. potential.

• Cooling...

Eavor secured $8 million from Alberta's TIER fund via ERA's Drilling Technology Challenge to advance its Eavor-Jules™ project and Eavor-Loop™...

Western Grid Policy Initiative

• 🔥 Governors Task Force: Eleven western governors including those from Utah, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho launched a...

Eleven western governors launched a bipartisan task force to accelerate transmission permitting and upgrades as part of an 'energy superabundance'...

Japanese energy giants JERA and Idemitsu joined Prelude Ventures in Quaise Energy's $134 million Series B, bringing total funding to $230 million for...

Fervo's Q1 revenue of just $61,000 belies the real story: $2.2 billion in IPO proceeds, $421.4 million in non-recourse Cape Station financing, and...

DOE's $171.5 million geothermal funding targets next-generation field tests and confirmation drilling, creating immediate labor demands for...