Geothermal

Rendesco invests £150m in ground-source heat pumps for UK new-builds

Rendesco, a UK-based ground-source geothermal heat developer, recently announced it is developing a gross pipeline of more than £150m ($187m)…

UK’s first deep geothermal power plant to be built in Cornwall 

Italian cleantech company Exergy International will team up with the UK’s Geothermal Engineering to construct the first deep geothermal power…

The top ten countries undergoing the most rapid renewable power transitions 

The global energy transition is not progressing quickly enough. The International Energy Agency’s July report, Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2023,…

The ten countries that produce the world’s cleanest electricity

By mid-century, 90% of the world’s electricity generation will come from renewable sources, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA)…

Geothermal can provide half the world’s energy – Quaise Energy CEO

US-based start-up Quaise Energy was founded in 2018 to develop a millimetre-wave drilling system for converting existing thermal power stations…

UK council backs drilling for disused coal mine geothermal project

Sunderland City Council has backed exploratory drilling for a geothermal scheme to heat homes and businesses using water from a…

COP27: Deep geothermal “superhot rock energy” could be key to climate action

When people think about UN climate summits, they likely imagine politicians thrashing out the details of new climate commitments in…

“Supercritical” geothermal could power everything

Wind and solar technologies are the poster children of renewable energy: their resources are widely available and increasingly low-cost, but…

High upfront costs stunt growth of geothermal in the US

Geothermal power and heat can play an “important role” in the US’s future energy mix, despite marginal gains in installed…

Geothermal is gaining traction as a clean heating solution

High upfront costs and exploratory uncertainty mean that in 2019 less than 0.9% of the global energy mix came from…