Subsurface resources can scale in years, not decades.

Gas seeping from Devonian shale lit the streetlamps of a small New York town.

First shale gas well — Fredonia, NY

First geothermal power plant — Larderello, Tuscany

Steam from Tuscan fields lit five light bulbs, demonstrating for the first time the ability to harness geothermal energy for electricity production.

The Eastern Gas Shales Project assembled over 40 industry, academic, and government partners around dozens of open-science demonstration wells.

Eastern Gas Shales Project

Slick-water fracturing made shale economic. The resulting shale boom rewrote global energy markets within a decade. Overall, ~150 years of stagnation accelerated by 20 years of progress.

Slick-water fracking demonstration kicks off the shale boom

Utah FORGE — enhanced geothermal testbed

A dedicated open-source field laboratory for enhanced geothermal. Real wells, real data, published for the benefit of the whole industry.

Commercial-scale EGS begins delivering power

Twelve years from open testbed to power on the grid.