Jewett: California's 2021 reliability ruling mandated 1 GW of firm clean power
Sarah Jewett · Building Fervo's geothermal giant · May 21, 2025 · at 18:26
Sarah Jewett, VP of Strategy at Fervo Energy, explains how California regulatory mandates catalyzed commercial demand and offtake interest for enhanced geothermal power.
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“In June of twenty-twenty-one, the California Public Utilities Commission launched the midterm reliability ruling, which I think is one of the biggest pieces of policy that has impacted our business to date, and it required all California load-serving entities to procure firm clean energy. It was just a gigawatt, but it was high-capacity factor, non-weather-dependent clean energy resources, and all of a sudden, geothermal was like on the map.”
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