USA, Alaska:

Energy Secretary Visits Chena Hot Springs (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)

Mentions geothermal before wind and solar!

US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz 

United States Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz delivered the keynote address at a Renewable Energy Fair at Chena Hot Springs Resort and toured the unique facilities and 400 kW geothermal energy project.

“This is one place that’s showing real progress and real promise,” Moniz said. “(The geothermal) cut costs here to less than 7 cents a kwh. That’s with a relatively low temperature source. With further demonstration of that, that could be important not only for Alaska, but internationally as well.”

“Our focus at (the department) right now is looking at renewables — geothermal, wind, solar — and their integration with fossil sources, which could be diesel engines as it is now,” Moniz said. “It could be propane, which would be associated with natural gas, but the idea would be to take maximum advantage of the renewable and to greatly decrease the use of the — let’s say — the diesel, which obviously is extremely expensive in terms of the logistics of getting it there.”

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