Fervo Energy, the Houston-based developer of the Cape Station geothermal generating facility in Beaver County, has a major customer for its Utah-generated electricity.
Fervo has signed a 396-megawatt (MW) power purchase agreement (PPA) with Alphabet Inc.’s Google. Google will purchase the power to serve as a building block for a potential data center in Utah.
Fervo said the PPA will enable the continued development of its enhanced geothermal system (EGS) near Milford, expected to come online in 2028. The deal is the largest enhanced geothermal power purchase agreement on record.
As part of the agreement, Google has an option to expand its offtake by approximately 600 MW, for a total of nearly 1 gigawatt by June 2030. Google’s data center plans remain subject to a variety of factors, including engineering feasibility, state and local approvals and commercial conditions.
“This deal unlocks new, around-the-clock electricity capacity at no cost to existing ratepayers,” Fervo said in its announcement. “Fervo and Google are both committed to a responsible growth approach grounded in transparency, two-way dialogue with communities and sustained local investment. As Google and Fervo’s partnership continues, we commit to upholding these principles in any community where we operate.”
“This agreement reinforces that EGS is ready to power the next generation of computing infrastructure,” said Tim Latimer, CEO and co-founder of Fervo Energy. “As demand for reliable electricity grows, customers like Google need energy resources that can be deployed at scale, operate around the clock, and deliver where power is needed. This new PPA is part of our repeatable commercial model that enables us to meet customer needs and directly deliver clean, firm power to large electricity users. We’re proud to do this work in close partnership with the communities of Southwest Utah and with a partner that upholds our community-first values.”
The Fervo-Google partnership began with Project Red, Fervo’s commercial pilot project in Nevada that came online in 2023. That pilot delivers power to the local grid, including Google’s data centers in the state. Following the success of Project Red, Fervo signed a 115 MW PPA with Google and NV Energy in June 2024 that helped pioneer the Clean Transition Tariff, enabling Google to bring more geothermal energy onto the Nevada grid while insulating everyday customers from the project’s costs.
“The next chapter of advanced power generation technology is being written in Utah,” said Michael Terrell, head of advanced energy at Google. “This project will drive meaningful economic benefit to the local community and help catalyze long-term energy cost reductions by making enhanced geothermal more affordable and accessible.”
This PPA is part of the ongoing expansion of Cape Station beyond its initial 100 MW phase, as Fervo further scales its operations and continues driving down development costs through standardized, repeatable execution. By pairing a repeatable, flexible commercial framework with a modular, scalable power solution, Fervo’s “GeoCluster” approach for data center development enables flexible power delivery pathways under new Utah statutes.
Fervo’s May initial public offering brought in more than $2 billion in proceeds. The company’s total contracted capacity now stands at around 1,000 megawatts, with Shell and Southern California Edison among the other buyers.
