[1] In 2008 it started its first project near The Geysers in California to demonstrate the ability of EGS to be a reliable, renewable and clean source for the production of electric power.
[3] Co-founded in 2007 by Andrew Perlman, Susan Petty, and other business partners, AltaRock has received backing from investors such as Google.org, Advanced Technology Ventures and Vulcan Capital, as well as demonstration grant funding from the United States Department of Energy (DOE).
Water usage [7] and induced seismicity [8] analyses for the demonstration site have been completed and conclude the project poses little risk to the area or to local communities.
The field has hundreds of megawatts of unused electric power generating capacity due to its lack of steam, caused by several decades of reservoir depletion.
Blue Mountain is a traditional geothermal energy site in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada that opened in 2009 but has since underperformed.