Hollis Chin, VP Marketing, GreenFire Energy The geothermal industry used to be a lonely place. Outside the industry, few people cared about the potential of earth’s abundant, continuous, renewable resource. We invited new people to our conferences, but they didn’t come. Now all that has changed. With the Geothermal Rising Conference, Pivot2021, GEOLAC, the World […]
Desperately Seeking Reliable Clean Energy: Closed-Loop Geothermal Energy Systems Offer Opportunities and Applications
Andrew J. Van Horn Ph.D., Director of Applied Research, GreenFire Energy California was burning and the western U.S. baking, leading to high electricity demands that taxed generation resources throughout the West. On Friday, August 14, 2020, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) reported that a 750 MW unit was offline, and a 475 MW natural […]
An Open Letter to the Oil Patch: Let’s Build Together
From the Heat Beat Blog Joseph Scherer and John Muir, GreenFire Energy In an article in support of geothermal energy, the Union of Concerned Scientists noted that the amount of available geothermal energy beneath our feet is 50,000 times more than the global total of oil and natural gas resources combined. Interesting, right? Put another […]
GreenFire Energy’s Demonstration of Closed-Loop Technology Accomplishes Its Goals – California Energy Commission Report Now Available
GreenFire Energy just announced the completion of the world’s first field-scale demonstration of closed-loop technology that is described in the California Energy Commission publication, Closed-Loop Geothermal Demonstration Project (CEC-300-2020-007…
On the Road: Geothermal Resources Council Coso Geothermal and GreenFire Energy Field Trip
On the last day of the recent Geothermal Resources Council Annual Meeting & Expo in Palm Springs, California, 52 GRC attendees boarded a bus for a GRC field trip to visit the Coso Geothermal Fields and the GreenFire Energy closed-loop geothermal demonstration project…
First Field Scale Test of Closed Loop Geothermal to be Conducted at Coso California
Despite its potential, geothermal power generation has always been a tough business. Finding the three components necessary for conventional geothermal projects – heat, water, and subsurface permeability – in the right proportions at the same site is comparatively rare…
Why the U.S. Department of Energy is Helping GreenFire Energy
The quest for clean energy has momentum. The Department of Energy’s Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot program just announced that GreenFire Energy is one of 43 companies to be awarded more than $8 million to work on clean energy technologies…