Communications Earth & Environment (Mar 2022)

Geothermal energy as a means to decarbonize the energy mix of megacities

  • Carlos A. Vargas,
  • Luca Caracciolo,
  • Philip J. Ball

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00386-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Geothermal energy can provide enough power to serve the current and future needs of megacities such as Bogotá, Los Angeles and Jakarta and also provide flexibility and baseload capacity, according to an assessment of the geothermal resource base in each city.