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    New Google geothermal electricity project could be a milestone for clean energy

    by Jennifer McDermott Nov 28, 2023 4 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

    An advanced geothermal project has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto the Nevada grid to power Google data centers there, Google announced Tuesday.

    Getting electrons onto the grid for the first time is a milestone many new energy companies never reach, said Tim Latimer, CEO and co-founder of Google's geothermal partner in the project, Houston-based Fervo Energy.

    “I think it will be big and it will continue to vault geothermal into a lot more prominence than it has been,” Latimer said in an interview.

    The has long projected geothermal could be a serious solution to climate change. It said in a 2011 roadmap document that geothermal could reach some 3.5% of global electricity generation

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