That amount of potential power is equivalent to the total amount of electricity generated in California from coal-fired power plants.
“Geothermal power can be a critical part of the answer to global warming,” says Karl Gawell, executive director of GEA . “These geothermal power projects will create substantial sources of new employment across the country.”
New geothermal power projects are in progress in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, according to GEA’s report, “April 2010 US Geothermal Power Production and Development Update .
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