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The Geothermal Entrepreneurship Organization (GEO) at the University of Texas at Austin announced today the formation of a new consortium, the Texas Geothermal Institute (TGI). TGI is an interdisciplinary, cross-state demand-pull innovation and commercialization exercise aimed at engaging top researchers and research institutions in Texas within petroleum and geoscience disciplines with the most pressing technological obstacles to widespread geothermal development.
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