Sustainability Street: Special Earth Day Episode

Happy Earth Day and welcome back to Sustainability Street, our podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. For this episode, I’m taking listeners beneath the earth’s surface to reveal the potential for geothermal energy in commercial real estate.

Joining me for this episode is CPE Senior Associate Editor Anca Gagiuc, our lead climate and energy reporter. We discuss geothermal’s advantages over other renewables and how forces, including the backing of President Trump, are aligning to increase geothermal investment and exploration.

“ Geothermal energy is accessible, it’s widespread and has always been there,” Gagiuc said. “Somehow it feels like it’s the energy industry’s massive overlook.”

Here are some of the topics we covered:

• President Trump’s favorite renewable (1:31)                                                        
• Accessing geothermal (5:08)
• What’s driving geothermal in CRE (8:52) 
• Geothermal for data centers? (12;57)
• Geothermal in urban environments (15:18)
• Action plan for geothermal (19:58)