{"id":183952,"date":"2026-05-05T01:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183952\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:03:17","slug":"federal-money-will-pay-for-enhanced-geothermal-project-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183952\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal money will pay for \u201cenhanced\u201d geothermal project in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pennsylvania is getting a federal grant to install a geothermal energy project at an existing natural gas site in Western Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The project will convert an existing natural gas well owned by CNX<\/a> in Indiana County into an enhanced geothermal well, where underground heat is used to create energy. The process produces \u201clittle to no\u201d greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.<\/p>\n

The pilot project <\/a>is the first of its kind in the eastern U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Enhanced geothermal uses techniques like fracking<\/a> to recover that heat. Geothermal energy currently makes up less than 1 percent<\/a> of the nation\u2019s electricity generation. But a 2023 Department of Energy study<\/a> estimated enhanced geothermal could account for up to 12 percent of the nation\u2019s electricity by 2050.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection says the $14 million project will provide heating for nearby buildings and power for the local grid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The installation will be at a site of a former unconventional well in Indiana County, though the DEP did not say where it would be located. The Shapiro administration is teaming up with the natural gas company CNX to build the project through a subsidiary called CNX Green Ventures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CNX spokesman Brian Aiello said in an email that the first phase of the project would be \u201ca thorough assessment and modeling of CNX\u2019s Marchand Utica well in Indiana County.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

That well, in North Mahoning Township<\/a>, was first drilled in 2013, according to state drilling records.<\/p>\n

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A PA DEP press release called the pilot part of Gov. Josh Shapiro\u2019s effort to address \u201cclimate change pollution\u201d and ensure reliable energy for Pennsylvanians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In its own press release, the federal Department of Energy said<\/a> the project supports President Trump\u2019s commitment to \u201cenergy addition\u201d and reducing energy costs.<\/p>\n

The project was funded<\/a> by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, passed under President Joe Biden. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania is getting a federal grant to install a geothermal energy project at an existing natural gas site…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[82066,45767,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-183952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bipartisan-infrastructure-law","tag-geothermal","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}