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Geothermal energy

May 2024

  • Robert Ballard speaking at a conference in California.

    The age of extinction
    I discovered the wreck of the Titanic – but seeing these vents in the sea floor was far more exciting

    The discovery of underwater hot springs in 1977 solved the mystery of how life first began on Earth, but it was locating the world’s most famous shipwreck that made me a celebrity

April 2024

  • Workmen installing a heat pump in Folkestone

    UK heat pump adopters open up homes to encourage others to ditch gas boilers

  • An aerial view of a pink sunset and a smokestack (steamstack?) in silhouette in the foreground, pumping out what is apparently steam.

    US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale

January 2024

  • Miners in Kilmersdon colliery in Somerset in 1962

    West of England coalmines to be mapped for renewable energy potential

  • Steam rises from the chimneys of a power plant at the Olkaria geothermal complex in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya.

    The alternatives
    ‘Our contribution to a cleaner world’: How Kenya found an extraordinary power source beneath its feet

November 2023

  • Wearing hi-vis jacket next to equipment in the ground

    Former fracking site could lead UK’s renewable revolution

    Final testing being done in project to give North Yorkshire site new life as source of geothermal energy

July 2023

  • A windmill and wind turbines near Bolsward, Friesland

    Heat from extinct volcano could be piped into Dutch homes

    Project in Friesland aims to draw on residual warmth from Zuidwal volcano for sustainable energy

June 2023

  • An aerial view of steam coming from a geothermal power plant in Iceland

    Network of geothermal power stations ‘could help level up UK’

    Many of Britain’s poorest towns are in areas with greatest potential for renewable energy, says report

April 2023

  • Air heat pump outdoors.

    High costs and uncertainties cast a chill over Britain’s heat pump market

    What can be done to boost sales of the green alternative to gas boilers?

October 2022

  • ‘We realised that our audiences could be our source of energy’ … the Bodyheat opening at SWG3, Glasgow.

    Hot moves: how a Glasgow venue harvests heat from dancers

    The Bodyheat system at warehouse venue SWG3 captures heat from the audience and funnels it 200 metres below ground to a layer of bedrock that acts like a thermal battery

September 2022

  • Workers connect hoses between a pipeline and water tanks at a fracking site in North Dakota, US.

    Weatherwatch
    What harnessing geothermal power shares with fracking

    The link between the fracking process and earthquakes is also a possibility in extracting geothermal energy

August 2021

  • Chris Myers, the Durham County Council regeneration manager, at the Dawdon mine water treatment plant in Seaham

    Groundwork
    Abandoned pits of former mining town fuel green revolution

    Project in Seaham, County Durham, will use water from mine shafts to heat 1,500 new homes

July 2021

  • Ryan Law, who runs Geothermal Engineering Ltd, at the United Downs site near Redruth.

    Full steam ahead for Cornwall’s geothermal energy project

    Team behind project at United Downs site near Redruth say power plant will be producing electricity and heat by next year

April 2021

  • The Eden Project biomes

    Eden Project to start drilling for ‘hot rocks’ to generate geothermal energy

    If successful project will allow water to be injected down borehole to be superheated by rocks beneath

October 2019

  • The giant biomes of the Eden Project near St Austell, Cornwall.

    Eden Project to begin drilling for clean geothermal energy

    Cornwall council and EU will fund scheme to tap into ‘hot rocks’ beneath attraction

April 2019

  • The geothermal potential of the Rift Valley is formidable

    The upside
    The joys of springs: how Kenya could steam beyond fossil fuel

    Engineers are tapping the Rift Valley’s subterranean energy to power an expanding economy

March 2019

  • Discarded farm equipment near the Lightning Dock geothermal plant. Locals say the state has been willing to risk their water for a green energy project.

    In hot water: New Mexico battles the dark side of renewable energy

    On the US-Mexico border, residents say a vast geothermal project threatens the water – and claim the state has ignored local concerns to help big energy

November 2018

  • sunset near a geothermal dig in cornwall

    Drilling starts to tap geothermal power from Cornwall's hot rocks

    Boreholes near Redruth would be UK’s deepest and could kickstart zero-carbon power source across country

July 2017

  • Granite boulders on Bodmin moor, Cornwall

    'Groundbreaking': Cornwall geothermal project seeks funds

    The UK’s first commercial geothermal plant could come online as soon as 2020 – research suggests the technology generate a fifth of the nation’s power

May 2017

  • Volcano erupting

    Innovation
    Could British homes be powered by Icelandic volcano?

    Commercial interest is growing in plans to harness geothermal energy from Iceland’s magma lakes and use it to supply the UK and Europe
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