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Despite Headwinds, One Climate Group Sees Opportunity Ahead for Clean Power

In a new report, Giving Green describes how advances in so-called “clean firm power” technologies and action on permitting reform can keep the U.S. on a forward path.

By Aidan Hughes

One of the World’s Largest Geothermal Networks Is Buried Beneath a Corporate Campus in Rural Wisconsin

By Phil McKenna

This Town Was One of the First in the Nation to Install a Geothermal Network. Now Others Are Warming Up to the Idea.

By Phil McKenna

A Geothermal Network in Colorado Could Help A Rural Town Diversify Its Economy

By Phil McKenna, Jake Bolster

Ground Source Heat Pump Manufacturers Urge Senators to Preserve Geothermal Tax Credits

By Phil McKenna

Can Solar and Geothermal Energy Help a Church and Its Neighbors Wean Off Fossil Fuels?

By Phil McKenna

Construction of a geothermal pilot project begins in July 2023 in Framingham, Mass. Credit: Eversource

What You Need to Know About Geothermal Heating and Cooling

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A Third Generation Driller Transitions from Oil and Gas to Geothermal

By Phil McKenna

As MIT Aims to Decarbonize, Competing Ideas Focus on Thermal Energy Systems

By Phil McKenna

A Little-Known Clean Energy Solution Could Soon Reach ‘Liftoff’

By Phil McKenna

How an Unlikely Coalition of Climate Activists and a Gas Utility Are Weaning a Boston Suburb Off Fossil Fuels

By Phil McKenna

An aerial view of the Yellow Pine project near Pahrump, Nev. Credit: Patrick Donnelly

How the Renewable Energy Boom Is Remaking the American West

By Jimmy Tobias

Steam rises from the Svartsengi geothermal power station on May 23 near Grindavik, Iceland. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

How Fracking Technology Could Drive a Clean-Energy Boom

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

Wind turbines spin on Alaska’s Fire Island in 2022. Cook Inlet Region, which owns most of the island, built the 17.6MW project a decade ago and is looking at options to triple the power output. Credit: Loren Holmes/ADN

Veterans of Alaska’s Oil Industry Look to Blaze a Renewable Energy Pathway in the State

By Hal Bernton

First-in-the-Nation Geothermal Heating and Cooling System Comes to Massachusetts

By Phil McKenna

Cindy Taff, chief executive officer of Sage Geosystems, at a testing site in Starr County on March 22, 2023. The startup is testing storing energy in the ground. “There’s some people that believe that there’s a climate crisis, and some people don’t believe it," Taff said. "We want this to be the energy of choice whether you believe in it or not because it’s cost-effective as well.” Credit: Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas/The Texas Tribune

In Texas, Ex-Oil and Gas Workers Champion Geothermal Energy as a Replacement for Fossil-Fueled Power Plants

By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune

The Pathway to 90% Clean Electricity Is Mostly Clear. The Last 10%, Not So Much

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: A Geothermal Energy Boom May Be Coming, and Ex-Oil Workers Are Leading the Way

By Dan Gearino

California Ups Its Clean Energy Game: Brown Signs 100% Zero-Carbon Electricity Bill

By Marianne Lavelle

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