On Monday, May 12, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. (MDT) the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold an oversight hearing entitled “Letting Off Steam: Unleashing Geothermal Energy Development on Federal Land.” The hearing will examine the barriers to developing geothermal energy on federal lands. The hearing will also highlight the growth potential of geothermal energy as a result of developing technologies like enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) and how this potential could help us meet rapidly growing domestic energy demand.

This hearing will be held in the Sterling R. Church Auditorium in the Sharwan Smith Student Center, at Southern Utah University, 351 W University Boulevard, in Cedar City, Utah.

Witnesses will be by invitation only.

The hearing notice, memo and witness testimony can be found on the committee’s repository here.