As part of the regular Focus on Geothermal Webinar series – a partnership of Enerchange and ThinkGeoEnergy, we are proud to host Lauren Boyd of the Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) under the US Department of Energy for a webinar on “The U.S. Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office: Drilling for Opportunities.”
Other webinar details are as follows:
Date: 12 September 2025
Time: 15:00 CEST / 09:00 ET
Registration: Click here to register
Speaker: Lauren Boyd, Director of the US Department of Energy – Geothermal Technologies Office
Join us to get the latest on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) research, development, and demonstration, including EGS research and demonstrations, updates from the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE), resource exploration, drilling improvements, energy storage and modeling for data centers, and international projects.
The GTO has been instrumental in encouraging the development of innovative geothermal solutions in the United States in the past several years, offering funding for initiatives ranging from pilot EGS projects to community-scale geothermal heating and cooling projects.
Lauren Boyd leads the efforts of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) to improve performance, reduce costs, and accelerate deployment of all geothermal technologies.
In this role, Lauren is responsible for oversight of the office’s geothermal research, development, and demonstration as well as championing GTO’s partnerships with industry, academia, the DOE national laboratories, and others to increase geothermal deployment and advance geothermal as an economically competitive and widely available part of the U.S. energy supply. Lauren also manages DOE’s international portfolio on geothermal and represents the United States on several international steering committees.
Prior to becoming director, Lauren served as GTO’s senior advisor, providing technical expertise and input on matters across the Office’s portfolio. She also spent more than a decade leading GTO’s enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) program, where she was instrumental in spearheading and launching DOE’s flagship EGS research site, the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE), as well as EGS Collab.
