This Week in Geothermal Opinion: Geothermal energy’s footprint is miles underground

Robert McDonald, of the Nature Conservancy’s Emerging Strategies Division, tells Greenwire’s Phil Taylor “Out of the renewable technologies, geothermal is a very compact way to generate energy. But it is one that’s often missed in the discussion of renewables.” A study released last summer that was led by McDonald found that future geothermal developments will be less than half as land-intensive as solar thermal plants and about one-tenth as land-intensive as wind farms.