Residents in the German town of Geretsried have long wanted to run their buildings with clean heat and electricity from geothermal energy rather than fossil fuels ...

Geothermal energy, which taps into underground reservoirs of steam and hot water, is one of the most environmentally friendly ...

But soon, Birol said, "geothermal can contribute to the ... The hot water also can be routed to a power plant to make steam and then recirculated. When used to spin a turbine, that steam can ...

There are hopes techniques borrowed from the oil and gas industry can boost the viability of geothermal energy, as a German town gears up to be a test case.

Historically, access to geothermal energy has hinged on real estate's famously three most important factors: location, ...

It might not look like it, but Pippa Buchanan's house is, in many ways, a very modern type of power plant. Inside the shed at her property in Cowaramup, a rural town about 3 hours south of Perth ...