A Green Reason to Drill, Baby, Drill: Renewable Energy That’s Always On
“It’s a very seamless transition to go from drilling oil and gas wells to drilling geothermal wells,” Tim Latimer, chief executive officer of Fervo, says on Zero.
Fervo’s Cape Station in Utah will begin delivering clean power to the grid in 2026
Courtesy of FervoBefore founding geothermal startup Fervo Energy in 2017, Tim Latimer was a drilling engineer in the oil and gas industry. “If it wasn’t for climate change, I probably wouldn’t have ever changed my career,” he says. “Because it was a fascinating career.”
Today, Latimer is applying his drilling know-how to renewable energy, using fracking technology to supercharge the output of Fervo’s geothermal wells. On this week’s Zero podcast, he talks about the opportunities the geothermal industry presents, what makes the permitting process so slow and why Fervo hopes to expand into Kenya, Indonesia, Turkey and the Philippines.