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Geothermal Energy
The only renewable energy that delivers steady base-load power. Utah has good geothermal resources, and the University of Utah has an excellent research institute, the EGI, which is famous world-wide for its geothermal expertise.
Geothermal Energy Association is excellent source of information.
The University of Utah's Energy and Geoscience Institute has an introductory brochure about geothermal energy at www.egi.utah.edu/geothermal/GeothermalBrochure.pdf.
Map of Geothermal Resources in the United States.
One policy which proved very effective is cost-shared drilling. This was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, before the time of the internet. A good resource to find information about these successful policies in the past is Annoated Geothermal Bibliography of Utah compiled by Karin E. Budding and Miriam H. Budgen, 1986.
Geothermal Task Force Report by the Western Governors' Association.
Slideshow Pleasures and Pains of owning and operating a geothermal power plant.
Aug 2007 slideshow Geothermal Project Development Hurdles.
Report about Utah's High Temperature Resource Potential.
2002 article about the Sulfurdale geothermal resource.
Assistance to States on Geothermal Energy.
1981 report about Commercialization of geothermal energy, showing how much activity there was in the early 1980s.