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Geothermal startup Fervo Energy has announced its largest contract to date, a milestone 15-year deal to sell 320 megawatts of power to Southern California Edison

Column: Good news for 100% clean energy. Geothermal has finally arrived

https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2024-06-25/column-get-ready-california-geothermal-energy-has-finally-arrived-boiling-point?

Superhot underground rocks can supply 24/7 clean power, combating the climate crisis.

Column: Good news for 100% clean energy. Geothermal has finally arrived

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Lugh

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One of the difficulties with ending the fossil fuel age is transitioning workers and economic activity. Geothermal energy like Fervo, apart from all its other benefits, might help solve that problem. There's a large cross-over in terms of skills between them and the oil and gas industry. They even sometimes use sites of former fossil fuel extraction for geothermal plants. Now they seem to have successfully demonstrated proof-of-concept it's frustrating things aren't moving faster with this energy source.