Western Grid
Return to the regional overview that places geothermal alongside hydro, solar, wind, nuclear, gas, coal, and storage.
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Geothermal is small in the Western power mix, but it plays an outsized strategic role.
The West has something most U.S. regions do not: a real geothermal base. It is not the dominant story in annual generation totals, but it remains one of the few firm clean resources already operating at regional scale.
Why it matters
Geothermal gives the Western portfolio a different shape
Hydro, solar, and wind define most of the Western clean-energy conversation. Geothermal is much smaller, but it matters because it is dispatchable, already built, and concentrated in the same region where grid-balancing questions are becoming more important.
Arizona and New Mexico
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Washington
Washington is included in the Western US navigation as an early entry point, even though the full page is not built yet.
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