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In-state geothermal could save California $44B annually: CATF

The Clean Air Task Force estimates that enhanced geothermal deployment could reduce the state’s need to expand interregional transmission by as much as 53%.

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The Clean Air Task Force estimates that enhanced geothermal deployment could reduce the state’s need to expand interregional transmission by as much as 53%. Conventional geothermal can only be deployed in specific places with naturally occurring heat, fluid, and permeable rock. Next-generation geothermal technology can be deployed in far more locations because it provides the fluid and creates engineered pathways into the hot rock.

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