ALPHAXIOMS Geothermal News & Energy Research

Berlin Is Drilling for a 250 MW Miracle – And It Might Just Work The German capital is betting on two radical technologies to kill fossil heat by 2045. One is already under construction. The other lies 2.5 kilometers beneath the Alexanderplatz. By Robert Buluma   June 2, 2026 BERLIN – On a gray morning in May, a few blocks from the Berlin-Mitte combined heat and power plant, Kerstin Busch did something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. She signed off on a 120-megawatt electric boiler that will turn surplus wind and solar power directly into hot water. “Electricity from wind and solar plants will be directly usable for around 30,000 district heating customers,” said Busch, Technical Managing Director of BEW Berliner Energie und Wärme. The €75 million project, backed by transmission operator 50Hertz, will be online by the end of 2028. That is the headline. But the real story is what Berlin is planning next. Deep beneath the city’s sandy soil, in hot water reservoirs tha...

From Łódź to Utah: ABB’s Polish Plant Powers the Next Generation of American Geothermal Energy By: Robert Buluma   In the race to build a reliable, carbon-free grid, a quiet but powerful partnership is taking shape—one that connects a high-tech factory in central Poland with a sprawling geothermal development in the Utah desert. ABB , the Swiss-Swedish engineering giant, has signed an agreement to supply advanced motor control solutions for Fervo Energy's flagship Cape Station project in Beaver County, Utah. The equipment, including more than 80 medium-voltage drives, will be manufactured at ABB's state-of-the-art facility in Aleksandrów Łódzki, Poland, underscoring how global supply chains are mobilizing to unlock next-generation geothermal energy at scale. Fervo Energy : Redefining Geothermal with Horizontal Drilling and AI Fervo Energy has emerged as a leading force in enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), a technology that adapts oil and gas techniques—horizontal drilling, m...

New Zealand’s Geoheat Revolution: How Earth Sciences New Zealand and Ara Ake Are Reshaping the Future of Low-Carbon Heat New Zealand is quietly positioning itself at the forefront of one of the most underappreciated but transformative energy transitions in the world: the large-scale adoption of geoheat. While global attention often gravitates toward geothermal electricity, hydrogen, or solar megaprojects, a more immediate and highly practical revolution is unfolding beneath the surface—direct-use geothermal heat under 150°C, now being systematically developed through a coordinated national strategy. The recently released 2026–2027 Geoheat Action Plan marks a pivotal moment in this journey. Developed through a partnership between Earth Sciences New Zealand and Ara Ake, the country’s energy innovation centre, the plan represents a structured attempt to move geoheat from scattered pilot projects into a coordinated, scalable national system. It is not just a research document—it is a depl...

Tenerife’s Geothermal Breakthrough: How Icelandic Expertise Is Trying to Rewrite the Energy Future of the Canary Islands By: Robert Buluma   Deep beneath the sun-baked landscapes of southern Tenerife, something significant is unfolding. A drilling rig is slowly penetrating volcanic rock that has not been seriously tested for large-scale energy production before. The borehole has already reached around 400 metres and is expected to descend to nearly 3,000 metres as the project progresses. What may look like a routine geological operation is, in reality, a potential turning point for the Canary Islands—and possibly for geothermal development in other island and volcanic regions around the world. For the first time in history, serious exploration is underway to determine whether Tenerife can support geothermal power generation. If successful, the project could lead to the construction of the first geothermal power plant ever built in the Canary Islands and Spain. The project is being ...

Poznań’s Geothermal Breakthrough: Europe’s Quiet Energy Revolution Is No Longer Theoretical — It Is Now Being Engineered Beneath a City of Half a Million People There are moments in energy transitions when the narrative stops being about “future potential” and starts becoming about “irreversible momentum.” Poznań, one of Poland’s most dynamic cities, has just crossed into that second category. What happened here is not just another municipal announcement or infrastructure update. It is a structural shift in how cities in Europe may begin to think about heat, energy security, and decarbonisation in the coming decades. In late May 2026, the City of Poznań confirmed a decisive step forward in what could become the largest urban geothermal heating deployment in Poland. Through strategic cooperation involving the municipality, Veolia, and geothermal developer Innargi, two municipal land parcels have now been officially allocated for the construction of geothermal heating facilities. A thi...