The Long, Hard Slog to Unlock the Potential of Geothermal Energy (GigaOm)
Remember when Google was making a big deal about the next generation of enhanced geothermal tech? What happened?
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| Bottle Rock Power Plant in the winter. |
In a windowless room on the bottom floor of a sprawling casino in Reno, Nevada, sat two road-weary startup execs who know better than anyone how hard it is to get a brand-new EGS power project up and running. Susan Petty,
AltaRock co-founder and CTO, and Aaron Mandell, AltaRock CEO, weren’t at the casino to gamble; they traveled to Reno for the
Geothermal Energy Association’s annual summit, and they represent the rare tech-driven, venture capital-backed startup at the event, amid the couple hundred attendees from power companies, utilities and traditional geothermal vendors.
