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Geothermal

A Groundbreaking Geothermal Heating and Cooling Network Saves This Colorado College Money and Water

When a former oil and gas developer partnered with Colorado Mesa University on geothermal, the school saved millions and set a new standard for energy-efficient buildings.

By Phil McKenna

 Bill Slaughter, the heating, ventilation and air conditioning technician at Colorado Mesa University, maintains the daily operations of the school’s geothermal network. Credit: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News
Epic’s corporate headquarters in Verona, Wis., features a geothermal heating and cooling network buried beneath the buildings. Credit: Courtesy of Epic

The Promising Renewable Energy That Democrats and Republicans Actually Agree On

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth
A pipe marked "geothermal" leans on other pipes in a residential neighborhood

Rare Win for Renewable Energy: Trump Administration Funds Geothermal Network Expansion

By Phil McKenna
Michael Ahern, senior vice president for system development at Ever-Green Energy, describes where wells will be drilled at The Heights, a 112-acre mixed-use development currently under construction in St. Paul, Minn. Credit: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News

Decades After the U.S. Government Conducted Research Beneath This City, a Promising Clean Energy Technology Returns to Its Roots

By Phil McKenna
Workers assemble a drill rod on a geothermal drilling rig in Krefeld, Germany. Credit: Roland Weihrauch/picture alliance via Getty Images

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

By Aidan Hughes
Epic’s corporate headquarters in Verona, Wis., features a geothermal heating and cooling network buried beneath the buildings. Credit: Courtesy of Epic

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

By Phil McKenna
West Union, Iowa, relies on geothermal energy to provide high-efficiency, fossil-free heating and cooling for a dozen buildings in its downtown. Credit: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News

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
Bedrock Energy CTO Silviu Livescu (right) and Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) talk in front of a drill rig on Wednesday at the Northwest Colorado Business District in Hayden, Colo. Credit: Emily Goldfield

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

By Phil McKenna, Jake Bolster
A draft budget bill would eliminate the residential clean energy credit that helps offset that cost of installing geothermal heating and cooling systems. Credit: Marius Becker/picture alliance via Getty Images

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

By Phil McKenna
Rev. Nathan Ives of the St. Peter’s-San Pedro Episcopal Church in Salem, Mass., stands next to an aging gas-fired, steam boiler in the church basement. Credit: Jonathan Wiggs/Boston Globe

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
Hot steam rises as workers cool mud extracted from a drilling well at a geothermal energy and lithium plant on the south side of the Salton Sea in Calipatria, Calif. Credit: Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A Third Generation Driller Transitions from Oil and Gas to Geothermal

By Phil McKenna
People walk though MIT’s campus in the Kendall Square neighborhood of Cambridge, Mass. Credit: Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

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

By Phil McKenna
Pipes for a geothermal heating system are dug into the ground using an excavator. Credit: MyLoupe/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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

By Phil McKenna
A house with its lights on is in the background. In the foreground: "GEO" spray painted in purple on the sidewalk leading up to it.

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
Construction of Eversource's geothermal pilot project takes place in the parking lot of Mass Bay Community College in Framingham, Mass. on Sept. 13, 2023. Credit: Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

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

By Phil McKenna

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