Geothermal energy a booming business

Leases snapped up across the West as states mandate renewables

PROVO, Utah – Within six months of discovering a massive geothermal field, a small Utah company had erected and fired up a power plant

Geothermal technology creates energy using heat that is stored in the earth. But geothermal still generates less than 1 percent of the world’s energy, according to the Paris-based International Energy Agency.