Project Red, Nevada: 2.35 km down · 990 m laterals · 16 stages · 169 °C out · 3.5 MW
Follow one well pair from first drilling to power: two horizontal wells, sixteen fracture stages between them, and water looping through hot rock to a power plant at the surface. Pick a part to isolate it, see through the rock, or go down to the fractures. Every number on the page comes from one model.
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Drilling the injection well
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Binary (ORC) power plantInjection wellProduction wellFracturesRock: basin fill over phyllite
TOURTwo wells from one pad, 2.35 km down into 190 °C rock. First, the injection well.
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Sources: Fervo Energy, Project Red results (July 2023); ThinkGeoEnergy, “Fervo Energy reports breakthrough in field scale EGS project in Nevada” (July 2023); Fervo at the Energy & Geoscience Institute, University of Utah (Sept 2023); GEOPHIRES Cape Station case study (fracture size and injection temperature). The same approach at commercial scale: Cape Station (238 °C resource, 7,500 ft laterals, 33 MW per GeoBlock). Others on this approach: Mazama Energy, Quaise Energy.