A pilot project from a team of oil industry veterans could save one of California’s key clean energy resources from terminal decline.
On Thursday, the Oklahoma City-based GreenFire Energy announced it had restored new life to a defunct well in the Geysers, the world’s largest geothermal power station — and one that has been in a state of slow, decades-long collapse.
By means of technology that taps the heat from underground — rather than the rapidly depleting water — the GreenFire team turned a well whose electric production had flatlined into a power producer.
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