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Drilling costs more upfront than rooftop boilers and chillers. But TENs shift the financial equation from CapEx to long-term OpEx, compliance, and asset value.

Geothermal uncertainty has gone beyond subsurface dynamics into the deep, dark depths of legislation and policymaking.

NY-GEO still feels like a checkpoint — a place to compare notes, challenge assumptions, and measure progress honestly.

Breaking down the opportunities of geothermal from water conservation to a workforce opening new doors to lead the geothermal movement.

More frequent and intense heatwaves are becoming part of the operating landscape, not an exception to it.

In the West, water has never been just about infrastructure—it’s about priorities, tradeoffs, and how a region plans for an increasingly uncertain future.

Episode 158 of The Driller Newscast brings host Brock Yordy together with geothermal advocate John Ciovacco to unpack the biggest conversations coming out of the NY-GEO conference.

Jim Beath’s latest “A Driller’s Life” follows a Miami deep-well job, a jump to underground mining in Nevada, and the hard lessons that came with chasing bigger holes.

Researchers note that many of the policy changes are recent and their long-term environmental effects remain uncertain.

Geothermal electricity has traditionally been limited to areas with natural geothermal activity such as volcanic regions or hot springs.