More than $300 million in funding for research and development of geothermal energy has been announced by U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. This now pushes Google.org into second place behind the government in domestic geothermal R & D funding.
The projects funded by this program address the need to further develop geothermal energy, including [...]

The U.S. Energy Department has bought a geothermal plant near Casper, Wyoming for an undisclosed amount. The plant was designed to produce 250 kilowatts of electricity and has been operating for over a year, providing electricity to operate oil wells. Ormat Technologies built the plant to prove the feasibility of using geothermal power to generate [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency is working with the federal government to require companies to start disclosing the amount of greenhouse gases they release into the atmosphere.
On Tuesday, the EPA proposed mandatory reporting of the gases blamed for global warming from approximately 13,000 companies that are large emitters of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, such [...]

Geothermal power has been booming recently. The Geothermal Energy Association released a report this week that showed that the number geothermal power projects in the U.S has increased by 25% since August.
The report suggests that the boom comes from the increase in geothermal land leases from the Bureau of Land Management along with a significant [...]

The US Department of the Interior has unlocked more than 190 million acres of federal lands to be leased for renewable, geothermal power development. These acres, which are contained in 12 different states, are reportedly capable of producing over 5,000 megawatts of power by 2015 and over 12,000 megawatts by 2025, enough to power millions [...]

Google, which has a huge interest in affordable power to run its ever-growing numbers of server farms, is heavily investing in research into the development of geothermal power. In the US, Google is the largest funding source for geothermal research.
MIT researchers estimate that the America could develop 100 gigawatts of generating capacity from geothermal [...]