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 The largest geothermal field in the world is The Geysers, near San Francisco. NREL is working with Calpine Corporation to improve the efficiency of its geothermal facilities.
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The Geothermal Technologies Program's R&D activities are carried out in partnership with industry to improve technologies for finding, characterizing, accessing, and producing geothermal resources. The work performed is consistent with the federal government's role of investing in high-risk, high-value RD&D that is essential to the nation's future and that would not be independently conducted by the private sector. The strategy is to conduct cost-shared R&D activities and to maximize the leverage of limited resources by supporting appropriate activities being conducted by other entities. Outreach activities such as the GeoPowering the West initiative are designed to remove barriers to the use of geothermal energy in the western United States.
The Program's efforts take two principal paths:
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