The Dept. of Energy’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) effort has entered Phase 2 with DOE’s announcement of a $29-million investment in enhanced geothermal systems (EGS).
Two teams—one at Sandia National Laboratories in Fallon, Nev., the other at the University of Utah in Milford, Utah—will share the investment to fully instrument, characterize and permit candidate sites for an underground laboratory to conduct cutting-edge research on the technology.