BEAVER — Southwest Utah will soon be home to the world’s largest next-generation geothermal energy project that will deliver 400 megawatts of 24/7 carbon-free electricity.
Texas-based Fervo Energy — a leader in next-generation geothermal technology — on Monday broke ground on its exploration drilling campaign at Cape Station in Beaver County.
Unlike existing geothermal projects, this one is different in the sense that it doesn’t require the presence of hot springs or geysers to deliver carbon-free energy to the grid. With Fervo calling the project a new era of enhanced geothermal energy, some may wonder what exactly that means.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, an enhanced geothermal system is a man-made reservoir, created where there is hot rock but insufficient or little natural permeability or fluid saturation. Fluid is then injected into the subsurface under carefully controlled conditions, which cause pre-existing fractures to reopen, creating permeability.
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Written by LOGAN STEFANICH, KSL.com.