Clean electricity like this reduces the need for traditional power plants that cause climate crisis. / Photo: HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP
Southern California Edison will purchase the electricity from Fervo Energy, a Houston-based geothermal company, Fervo announced.Clean electricity like this reduces the need for traditional power plants that cause climate crisis. The boost could go a long way toward bringing down the cost of a new generation of geothermal energy, said Wilson Ricks, an energy systems researcher at Princeton University.
“I think that’s why it’s so exciting. This isn’t a niche energy resource going to a niche use,” she said. “And that is something we have not had, you know, readily available" and able to be scaled up.
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