The US Department of Energy has chosen US Geothermal’s (HTM) Raft River site in Idaho as one of 21 projects to demonstrate the viability of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) and will provide up to $6 million to fund the research.  The program is designed to perform a monitored thermal stimulation of an existing injection well to improve permeability within the geologic horizon that hosts the Raft River geothermal reservoir.

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