Fervo Energy has announced that Cape Station has achieved First Power, marking the first time a utility-scale enhanced geothermal development has reached this milestone anywhere in the world.
The achievement comes four months after Fervo’s May 2026 public offering. Following the successful deployment of Fervo’s EGS technology at Project Red, which has been producing electricity to the grid since 2023, First Power at Cape Station represents a significant scale-up of the technology in a greenfield setting.
Tim Latimer, CEO and Co-Founder of Fervo Energy, said, “This is a gamechanger for the geothermal industry. It establishes EGS as the defining new power generation technology of our time and we believe it shows that the commercial and technical maturity of EGS is ready to meet the urgent need for reliable, clean power.
“I could not be more proud of the years of hard work from Fervo’s employees, investors, suppliers, customers, and partners, which brought us to this moment. We are just getting started.”
Cape Station Phase I is an approximate 100MW installation featuring three 33MW GeoBlocks, the first of which has achieved First Power and is expected to reach its contractual COD by October 1st, 2026.
Fervo will continue to ramp up its first GeoBlock as it brings the full well system online while commissioning the remaining two GeoBlocks which are expected to reach contractual COD by January 1st, 2027.
The next phase, an additional 400MW, is already under construction. Fully contracted offtake at Cape Station sits at around 900MW, which is enough to power the equivalent of nearly one million US homes annually.
Jack Norbeck, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, said, “Cape Station works because we treated the subsurface like an engineering challenge, Years of drilling, completion design, subsurface modelling, and flow testing led to this moment, and this is the validation that matters most. First Power is proof the science works.”