US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was in Salt Lake City this week for a tour that included a look at a unique heat pump system that gets its energy from the ground, saving energy costs of $70,000 a year via 151 wells that go 350 feet underground.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's energy portfolio includes the ground under your feet — geothermal — already contributing 6% of the state's energy mix with a University of Utah blueprint and an ambitious project in central Utah underway to make it commercially viable everywhere.
"Utah is so fortunate to have this amazing resource," Granholm said at a press conference. "That being the heat beneath your feet, and it is available anywhere." The enhanced geothermal technology works like a radiator, with the planned injection of water into one well that will then be brought up as steam to power a turbine to turn it into energy.
"This is almost an inexhaustible resource," Granholm said, adding the Utah team is trying to "crack the code" to make it commercially viable. She said with just 2% of the resource tapped, U.S. geothermal energy is abundant enough to power the United States 2,000 times over.project is an underground demonstration laboratory with international partners and has already successfully drilled its first well.
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