New Mexico is known for bringing the heat with its famous green chiles, but a new report points to another source of heat that’s causing excitement. Project Innerspace’s report titled “Future of Geothermal in New Mexico” lays out the opportunities — and challenges — to harnessing the state’s geothermal resources as a reliable, sustained domestic source of energy.
One of the report’s lead authors is Travis Broadhurst, a geomechanics doctoral student at UNM and an intern with Sandia’s Geothermal Research department. Broadhurst called the report “seminal,” saying he expects it to “kick-start a lot of things.”
The report’s nine chapters range from characterizing the state’s subsurface resources and potential applications to the regulatory, environmental and stakeholder factors that must be considered in the development of geothermal projects. “For geothermal developers, having one single document that includes all that up-to-date information is really helpful,” Broadhurst said.
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January 5, 2026