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Eavor Technologies achieved a significant breakthrough in December 2025 when its flagship closed‑loop geothermal project in Geretsried, Germany, began delivering electricity to the grid.  By:  Robert Buluma  The Canadian startup had completed the first of four planned underground loops and intended to start construction on the second loop in early 2026. That timeline has now been revised. The company encountered substantial engineering difficulties while drilling the initial wells, including borehole instability, slow penetration rates, equipment failures, and cement‑casing issues that allowed fluid to leak between parallel drilling rigs. Although Eavor resolved those problems, the setbacks increased both time and cost. As a result, the firm is now looking for new project partners and investors to help complete the next phase. The Geretsried site, located south of Munich, was chosen precisely because it is geologically challenging. Previous conventional geothermal attemp...

Eavor at the Crossroads: What Geretsried Really Tells Us About the Future of Closed-Loop Geothermal By Alphaxioms Geothermal Insights | May 13, 2026 For years, Eavor Technologies was the geothermal sector's most talked-about enigma. The company raised hundreds of millions of dollars, attracted backing from heavyweights including BP , Chevron , Helmerich & Payne , and Temasek , and made bold promises about a proprietary closed-loop technology that would quietly revolutionise how humanity extracts heat from the earth. But it rarely said much in public. The secrecy was, to many observers in the geothermal community, a feature rather than a bug — protecting intellectual property, managing competitive intelligence, buying time. Now, Eavor is talking. And what it is saying is worth listening to very carefully. In an exclusive interview published on May 13, 2026, by GeoExpro editor Henk Kombrink, Eavor's new president and CEO Mark Fitzgerald — who took the role in October 2025 ...