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With Trump pivot back to pro-oil and gas policies, one renewable energy finds favor

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With Trump pivot back to pro-oil and gas policies, one renewable energy finds favor.

Geothermal creates electricity cleanly by making steam from the Earth ’s natural heat and using that steam to spin a turbine.

Trump strongly supports and gets support from the oil and gas industry.

“This could be the decade of geothermal,” Taff said.

She hopes it will spur investment in large projects that meet surging demand for electricity from data centers and artificial intelligence.

If geothermal projects could multiply fast across the country, she said, it would bring the cost down.