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Secretary of Energy Moniz Visits University of Nevada, Reno to Talk Geothermal (University of Nevada, Reno)

Students, faculty, industry leaders, agency reps participate in informal forum on geothermal in Nevada

Graduate students and geothermal industry leaders met with United States Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz to talk about geothermal research and the geothermal industry in Nevada.

At an informal forum Wednesday, Oct. 22 at the University of Nevada, Reno's Joe Crowley Student Union, they addressed the breadth and diversity of activities underway in northern Nevada in conventional hydrothermal, low temperature and innovative geothermal exploration technologies, and enhanced geothermal systems.

Moniz said the Department of Energy is committed to growing cross-cutting, sub-surface fracture management, improving success rates of drilling and starting a jobs strategy council to integrate with college programs that will build workforce, through such things as enhanced graduate programs that would meet energy sector workforce needs.

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