Leading The Way To Abundant Geothermal Energy (University of Utah)
University of Utah team one step closer to building geothermal research laboratory
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| GRC Board Member Joseph Moore from the University of Utah’s Energy & Geoscience Institute leads a team that was one of two research groups selected by he U.S. Department of Energy to establish a multi-million-dollar geothermal field laboratory. Their proposed site is near Milford, Utah, and would be used to conduct research into geothermal technologies. |
A patch of land north of Milford, Utah, is one step closer to becoming the country’s hotbed of research for geothermal energy, clean and renewable electricity generated from hot rocks deep underground.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced that the University of Utah’s Energy & Geoscience Institute (EGI) is one of two research groups selected as finalists to establish a multi-million-dollar geothermal field laboratory to develop techniques for improved recovery of geothermal energy. The other group is the Sandia National Laboratory team, which is promoting a site on the U.S. Naval Air Station in Fallon, Nevada.
The award is for the Department of Energy’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) initiative.
