New ZERO Lab + Fervo Energy paper here in Nature Energy explores the potential for enhanced geothermal energy systems & their inherent flexibility to shift power production to valuable periods to help decarbonize the American West. Read paper free here: rdcu.be/dv1sy 🔌💡

This is incredibly interesting. I had figured geothermal energy would just have to figure in considerable curtailment, but I guess not...

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Will read when I’m back in the office later this week, but for scale, how do those values compare with current coal/gas plants across the Western states considered?

Yes! Very excited to check this one out.

I remember reading about the injection testing in NV a little bit ago. It's exciting to see a future with more zero carbon inertia on the system. Especially from a dispatchable resource.