Work Area
Superhot Rock Geothermal
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Planning for yesterday: Why EU 2040 modelling needs updating
1. Executive summary Modelling frameworks shape what governments perceive as feasible, so the limits of any reference model matter for policy design. Research on EU model adoption finds heavy concentration around a small number of modelling frameworks, so their quality and assumptions matter and must be open to challenge.1 Planning…
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At COP31, Türkiye’s geothermal announcement marks important step toward accelerating global deployment
Clean Air Task Force (CATF) welcomes Türkiye’s announcement of the Global Geothermal Ambition 2050 at COP31.
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Deeper international partnership must help unlock geothermal globally
With conflict disrupting global energy markets and driving higher prices, the imperative to develop and deploy technologies like advanced geothermal is as strong as ever.
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Next-Generation Geothermal at Scale: A Global Action Framework
In this report, Clean Air Task Force explores how governments and multilateral institutions can accelerate next-generation geothermal deployment through targeted policy action.
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Bridging the Valley of Death: How Test Centers Can Unlock the Geothermal Opportunity
As growing electricity demand, energy security concerns, and decarbonization goals drive the search for clean, reliable, and complementary energy sources, attention is increasingly turning to next-generation geothermal technologies such as superhot rock, enhanced geothermal systems, and advanced geothermal systems. Achieving commercial viability for such technologies requires field-scale testing using infrastructure…
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Designing for Success: How an Effective IP and Data-Sharing Framework Helps Test Centers Unlock Geothermal Innovation
Test centers are a powerful tool for accelerating energy technology innovation, like superhot rock geothermal, but they can only succeed if the test center’s intellectual property (IP) and data-sharing framework creates commercially credible conditions for participation and value creation. This brief summarizes the principal options available to test center organizers…
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Designing an Intellectual Property and Data Governance Framework for a Superhot Rock Geothermal Testbed
Superhot rock geothermal (SHR) offers a pathway to globally scalable, zero-carbon, always-available power. Achieving this potential requires credible, field-validated evidence of drilling performance, reservoir creation, and high-temperature tool reliability at conditions that individual companies cannot replicate alone. Early-stage SHR development is capital-intensive, technically complex, and commercially sensitive, which makes well-designed…
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Digging deeper: $20 million to kickstart next-generation geothermal in California
California’s 2026 budget included $20 million for geothermal exploration, mapping, characterization, and development.
