Overview
- Fervo’s Cape Station in Beaver County, Utah, which synchronized to the grid Thursday, is exporting electricity from the first 33‑megawatt GeoBlock and is ramping toward a contractual commercial operation date on October 1, 2026.
- Phase 1 at Cape Station comprises three 33‑MW GeoBlocks totaling about 100 MW with the remaining two units expected to reach commercial operation by January 1, 2027, and a 400‑MW Phase 2 already under construction for 2028.
- Fervo has secured large offtake deals that support the project’s economics, including a 396‑MW power purchase agreement with Google and Southern California Edison as the primary customer for Cape Station.
- The technology creates engineered reservoirs by drilling roughly 10,000‑foot vertical wells and long horizontal laterals then using hydraulic fracturing to circulate >400°F fluids, and the company’s modular GeoBlock design aims to make that process repeatable across sites.
- The milestone follows Fervo’s May 2026 IPO and early pilots and it now shifts focus to whether EGS can scale reliably and cost‑competitively given permitting, grid interconnection, long‑term reservoir performance, and continued financing needs.