Wyoming may be home to the famous bubbling geothermal features in Yellowstone National Park, but that doesn’t mean the state is a hot spot for generating electricity using heat from inside the earth.
A new federal assessment identified Wyoming as part of a massive underground geothermal energy resource that could generate electricity equal to 10% of America's current power supply, though state-specific research suggests only modest potential for Wyoming.
A May U.S. Geological Survey's report on geothermal systems in the Great Basin found that the arid lands of Nevada and adjoining parts of California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and a sliver of Wyoming's western border with Idaho contain enough geothermal energy to generate 135 gigawatts of electricity from the upper 6 kilometers of the Earth's crust. CONTINUE READING