BY SAUL ELBEIN – 03/06/23 6:00 AM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Real estate developer Douglas Gilliland believes the future of housing lies underground. Amid the unseasonal heat of late February — as neighborhoods across the state hummed with the sound of condenser units struggling to cool homes — the Whisper Valley community Gilliland is developing was all […]
by Danny Rehg and Sean Marshall Texas is well known as an energy and economic powerhouse. Given Texas’ global leadership in oil, natural gas, and renewable energy, it comes as no surprise that we are also pursuing the abundant geothermal energy resources within Texas. Using skills from over 100 years of drilling activity, Texas will […]
A report from researchers at five universities says Texas’ abundant resources of underground heat and its oil and gas history make it ideal for geothermal growth spurt that could rival the fracking boom. ENERGYWIRE | Texas has enough geothermal potential to decarbonize 100 percent of its grid and foster a new energy industry in the […]
Study Highlights Growing Momentum for Geothermal Energy in Texas AUSTIN, TX (January 24, 2023) . . . The Texas Geothermal Energy Alliance (TxGEA) applauded today’s release of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary, cross-collaborative report providing a roadmap for future development of geothermal energy in Texas. The report, “The Future of Geothermal in Texas: The Coming Century of […]
After a year long multi-disciplinary, cross-collaborative effort, researchers at five Texas universities, the University Lands Office, and the International Energy Agency are set to publish a major report entitled “The Future of Geothermal in Texas: The Coming Century of Growth & Prosperity in the Lone Star State.” The extensive “deep dive”includes analyses of the location and […]
Getting close to Earth’s sun-hot core is key to scaling geothermal energy plants. But it’s harder than it looks to dig miles into the ground. *Tapping into the energy content of heat stored underground would meet the world’s energy needs.*To do so, the engineering would focus on millimeter waves that vaporize rocks to drill deeper than ever before.*An MIT […]
Pumped hydro already accounts for 93% of utility-scale energy storage in the US, and plans are in the works to build up from there.ByTina Casey The US Department of Energy has been eyeballing pumped hydro energy storage for a makeover, and it looks like they have a winner. The Texas firm Quidnet Energy has just […]
For more than a century, graduates of The University of Texas School of Law havebeen leaders in law, public service, and civic leadership, living extraordinary lives thatembody the university’s beloved motto, “What starts here changes the world.” Startingin 1958, the Texas Law Alumni Association established an annual award to honorgreatness in the law school’s alumni […]
‘We need to not have all our eggs in one basket’: Why geothermal energy could be a game changer Geothermal provides a stable, consistent energy source that’s not dependent on the weather. Experts see huge potential for it—especially in the West. Geothermal power currently provides only a tiny fraction of the nation’s electricity. But as […]
Cindy Taff, For the Express-News March 12, 2022 Texas has long been known as “the energy state.” I, and many others, have long supported an “all of the above” approach to energy development here. This has been fairly easy given the abundance of varied resources found within Texas. Yet one resource, geothermal energy, has not historically […]
