06/25/2025
A huge moment for Sage Geosystems.
Our CEO Cindy D. Taff took the TED Countdown stage in Nairobi, Kenya — one of the most important climate platforms in the world — to talk about the future of energy.
Twenty years ago, Cindy was an oil & gas engineer, focused on delivering affordable energy by drilling deep into the earth. But four years ago, a nudge sparked a major shift: What if everything we learned drilling for fossil fuels could be used to tap the earth’s heat instead?
That idea became the foundation of next-generation geothermal. Instead of relying on volcanic hot spots, next-gen geothermal can be deployed almost anywhere — using existing oil & gas infrastructure to drill for dry rock heat, not hydrocarbons.
The impact? Gigawatt-scale energy that’s baseload, dispatchable, and ready to scale today. To deliver 5GW by 2030, we’d need to drill just 500 wells per year — using less than 5% of the oil & gas industry’s current capacity.
This isn’t theoretical. It’s happening now. And it’s how we build a better energy future for the next generation.
Photo Credit: Callie Giovanna Shields & Wanjira Gateri
