{"id":639809,"date":"2026-10-08T04:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/639809\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T04:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:36:08","slug":"department-of-energy-awards-funding-to-utah-geothermal-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/639809\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Energy awards funding to Utah geothermal projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Federal agencies have geothermal energy<\/a> in sight and are injecting funds for projects in Utah. The U.S. Department of Energy announced Monday it is granting $99 million for 21 geothermal energy development projects throughout the country. Five of them are in Utah.<\/p>\n

Five of the projects<\/a> the department selected are working on conducting tests of enhanced geothermal systems “to validate technologies under real-world conditions,” the agency said in a news release. Projects from Zanskar Geothermal and Minerals, AlterG Resources, and the University of Utah, all based in Salt Lake City, made the cut.<\/p>\n

“These projects will empower American innovators to unlock the tremendous geothermal resources beneath our feet,” Department of Energy undersecretary Kyle Haustveit said in the release.<\/p>\n

The Utah companies and research institutions selected by the department are deploying their projects in different out-of-state sites, including locations in Hidalgo County, New Mexico; Pershing and Churchill Counties, Nevada, and the Dixie Valley West geothermal field, also in Nevada.<\/p>\n

The remaining 16 projects are conducting exploration drilling to identify new geothermal and conventional hydrothermal geothermal generation. The University of Utah and Zanskar Geothermal and Minerals are also among those.<\/p>\n

The University of Utah’s exploration drilling project is expected to study “a large thermal anomaly in Utah’s Cove Fort geothermal field.” And projects from out-of-state companies, like Nevada’s Raser Power System, will explore increased generation at a geothermal power plant in Utah’s Escalante Desert.<\/p>\n

The technology can produce renewable energy, converting heat from under the surface of the earth into electricity. Amid a push to multiply energy sources, the development of geothermal has attracted bipartisan attention. Even recently, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico joined forces to create a Mountain West Geothermal Consortium to accelerate the technology’s development.<\/p>\n

The data generated by these projects is expected to become publicly available through the Department of Energy’s Geothermal Data Repository<\/a> to help “inform future technology development and geothermal exploration across the industry,” the release says.<\/p>\n

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