In just 12 months, Sage Geosystems and San Miguel Electric Cooperative built the world’s first pressure geothermal system. It is now poised to deliver long-duration, dispatchable storage for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) as variable generation and data center demand surge. In Christine, Texas—a town of barely 365 people an hour south of San Antonio—San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc. (SMECI) is pulling off a transformation that will redefine rural generation. Borne out of ef...