The U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office announced the creation of a Geothermal Center of Excellence on September 3, 2026. The facility is located at the National Laboratory of the Rockies’ South Table Mountain Campus in Golden, Colorado.
The center is led by the National Laboratory of the Rockies and supported by the National Energy Technology Laboratory. It aims to serve as a hub for collaboration between industry, academia, and national laboratories to accelerate the deployment of geothermal energy across the United States.
In addition to the primary leads, the project incorporates expertise from nine other national laboratories, including Argonne, Brookhaven, Idaho, Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest, and Sandia. An industry advisory board will also be established to guide research priorities.
The initiative is part of a broader strategy by the Department of Energy, which has established centers of excellence in four distinct functional areas. The goal is to leverage national laboratory capabilities to address technical barriers and increase the scale of geothermal power production.
