Eavor's deep geothermal project in Bavaria fails: loops clogged, budget blown, company walks away
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A Canadian geothermal energy company called Eavor built a closed-loop geothermal system 4.5 km deep in Bavaria, Germany, designed to extract heat from hot rock anywhere on Earth. The system began feeding electricity to the German grid in December 2025. However, six months later, the CEO admitted that two of the loops are clogged, the budget has been exhausted, and the company is walking away from the project — a significant setback for the promise of scalable, location-independent geothermal energy.
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In December 2025, the loop started pushing electricity onto the German grid.
Two loops are clogged, the budget's gone, and it's walking away.
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