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Environmental Risk to Baseload: Retrofitting Zombie Wells into Closed-Loop Geothermal

By Gavin Nicholson — reviewed by Ken Wisian, Ph.D. · October 2025

The case for repurposing abandoned oil and gas wells into closed-loop geothermal as a baseload diversification strategy for the ERCOT grid.

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