Is geothermal energy on the cusp of a worldwide renaissance?

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The UK's first geothermal plant in Cornwall is part of a wave of projects aiming to meet growing electricity demand, some of them enabled by technology from oil and gas fracturing The UK’s electricity grid has started getting its first geothermal power amid a worldwide resurgence of interest in geothermal, thanks to improving well technologies and rising power demand from data centres. The United Downs plant in Cornwall will generate 3 megawatts of electricity while also producing lithium for battery production. “Let’s call it a renaissance,” says Ryan Law, CEO of Geothermal Engineering Ltd., the company behind United Downs. “There is a lot going on in the US. There is quite a lot going on in Europe too, I think, in part driven by our sort of insatiable demand for 24/7 renewable energy.” As energy grids come to rely on wind and solar generation that changes with the wea
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