Geothermal Expansion Eyed by Biden Officials for Climate Goals

The Energy Department is moving forward on plans to demonstrate a geothermal power plant in the eastern U.S., a move into new and difficult territory for technology that taps into geologic formations to produce heat and electricity.

Eastern states pose technical and financial challenges for geothermal, but job skills and lessons learned from oil and gas drilling will help scale up the clean energy resource, a DOE official told Bloomberg Law. The expansion beyond a group of Western states is essential to scale up to 60 gigawatts of geothermal capacity by 2050—about ...