Over 400 attended the 50th Stanford Geothermal Workshop
The Stanford Geothermal Program hosted the 50th Stanford Geothermal Workshop on February 10-12, 2025. This year's workshop beat last year's then record-setting attendance and in 2025 the Workshop hosted 450 participants from 28 countries, and 225 written papers were submitted with 216 presentations. Registration was so large that the event sold out and further attendance was constrained (at which point the Workshop was made open to virtual attendees, and an average of 100 additional attendees per session participated remotely with a total engagement of around 12,000 minutes in each of the three days). The geothermal industry is thriving, and the Stanford Geothermal Workshop continues to bring together key players in the development of new technologies and techniques.
The Workshop is in its 50th year, having first run in 1975. The Workshop is one of the World's primary technical and scientific meetings in the field of geothermal energy and has been the template of many similar geothermal workshops organized around the globe.
The goals of the conference were to bring together engineers, scientists and managers involved in geothermal reservoir studies and developments; provide a forum for the exchange of ideas on the exploration, development, and use of geothermal resources; and to enable prompt and open reporting of progress.
Keynote speakers were:
Joe Moore, Director, UtahFORGE project
Jack Norbeck, Chief Technology Officer, Fervo Energy
Happy Golden Anniversary, Stanford Geothermal Program!
Congratulations to all the participants and to Prof. Roland Horne and the Stanford Geothermal Team for another successful event! A special thank you to Ormat Technologies, Inc. for their sponsorship of the Banquet, Seequent for their sponsorship of the Reception, and Geothermal Rising and Davinci for their sponsorship of lunches and coffee breaks. Thanks also to Lyrissa Roman, Workshop Manager, and to the student volunteers, Sarah Sausan, Yuan Tian, Mohammad (Jabs) Aljubran, Xunfeng Lu, Kongphop Wongpattananukul, Marwah Mufid AlSinan, Siqin Yu, Sohail Waziri, Keisuke Yamamura, Xiaoyu Yang, Dang Ton, and Ciro dos Santos Guimaraes.
