Last year, we made a promise. We promised to share why deep geothermal is not an option but a necessity for the global energy transition. And throughout 2024, we examined everything from land use to infrastructure to economics.
Now, in 2025, we’ll walk through how to construct the first superhot geothermal power plants. But we won’t just tell you, we’ll show you. Expect a new format for a new year of Insights.
You can also expect several drilling updates in 2025. Our millimeter wave drilling systems quietly progressed last year to become fully field-ready. We’re finally breaking ground in Texas and can’t wait to show you.
These two themes build off each other. As we mature millimeter wave drilling, we also need to de-risk the whole process of superhot geothermal power production. We can’t have one without the other; they are made to go together. And they have been for years.
Seven months from now, in September, it will officially mark 20 years since MIT convened a panel of experts to explore how geothermal could become a major energy source by 2050. That report sparked Paul Woskov to apply his fusion research to geothermal energy, culminating in the invention of millimeter wave drilling.