{"id":192319,"date":"2024-07-04T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/worlds-biggest-geothermal-power-purchase-agreement-now-in-the-bag"},"modified":"2024-07-04T14:24:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T19:24:12","slug":"worlds-biggest-geothermal-power-purchase-agreement-now-in-the-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/worlds-biggest-geothermal-power-purchase-agreement-now-in-the-bag","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s biggest geothermal power purchase agreement now in the bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-biggest-geothermal-power-purchase-agreement-now-in-the-bag2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a year ago, Fervo Energy successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of its horizontally oriented geothermal system. Now the company has landed a massive contract for providing its clean, virtually endless power to the California grid.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only been one year since Fervo Energy unveiled <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/fervo-geothermal-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">a novel concept in geothermal energy harvesting<\/a> at its Project Red pilot plant in Nevada. Instead of drilling vertical bores that deliver water into the hot rocks lying beneath the Earth\u2019s surface, it used techniques from the oil and gas industry to break up rocks, drive water through them horizontally, and collect the resultant steam to drive turbines at the surface.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that its new method was set to change the geothermal landscape because it could work in many locales \u2013 not just those where hot rocks are close to the surface like in Iceland and New Zealand. And a new contract proves that it was right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a year ago, Fervo Energy successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of its horizontally oriented geothermal system. Now the company has landed a massive contract for providing its clean, virtually endless power to the California grid. It\u2019s only been one year since Fervo Energy unveiled a novel concept in geothermal energy harvesting at its Project Red [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}