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Volume 42, Issue 10
  • ISSN: 0263-5046
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2397

Abstract

Summary

In the past decade, there has been a remarkable growth in renewable energies in the state of Utah, adding new resources to the state’s traditional fossil fuels. Utah’s New Energy Corridor spans between the town of Delta and Cedar City in the Great Basin. This 140-mile stretch is home to a diverse array of clean energy projects, including hydrogen storage, geothermal plants, and wind and solar farms. With its favourable conditions including high geothermal gradiants, high solar irradiance, and a vast desert landscape, Utah’s New Energy Corridor will play a greater role in “coproduction” of renewable energies and clean energy technologies, and already offers field-scale analogs for similar energy transition projects in other parts of the world. The knowledge base and skillsets arising from the development of the new energies in Utah are also valuale contributions to energy science and engineering.

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