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Tim Latimer
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CEO @ Fervo Energy
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Because of some great work with our partners, we do not foresee this being a limiter to growth. Here’s an example with our turbine supplier for Cape Phase I.
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Turboden and Fervo Energy Establish Partnership to Propel Geothermal Energy Innovation - Fervo Energy
Brescia, April 22nd - Turboden, a global leader in Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems, proudly announces a groundbreaking collaboration with Fervo Energy, a
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August 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
That probably adds to my point. It takes quite a bit of work to get even a single patent. An idea is just the beginning of that process.
July 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It’s not a graph of electricity prices. It’s a graph of Electrical Power and Specialty Transformer Manufacturing.

The point is, people hoping power prices will go back to “normal”, in a new regime when most of the major inputs to power prices are structurally higher, are not going to be happy.
July 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
It’s a Producer Price Index for Electrical Power and Specialty Transformer Manufacturing.
July 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Driving costs lower in the face of unprecedented rises in power component costs while simultaneously removing China from the supply chain is going to be quite a challenge.
July 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Distributed energy is probably even more exposed to these price trends than utility scale is.
July 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If it’s that easy to replicate it probably was never going to be an enduring business anyway.
July 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
No, the article is correct. Taking existing technology from shale and then adapting it to work is the whole thesis, and that’s what the article says.
July 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Warrens is correct. While the technology category of PDC bits comes from oil and gas, they have had to be adapted to perform in granite.
July 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
That was my reaction at first, and actually spent a few years trying to get a job somewhere already
using this approach for EGS because I thought it was so obvious someone must be doing it.

However, replicating O&G performance in geothermal reservoirs has been a huge technical undertaking.
July 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM