Exploring new frontiers in the renewable energy transition
RASEI Fellow Bri-Mathias Hodge, in collaboration with Shae Frydenlund, are exploring the barriers in the deployment of geothermal energy.Ìý
Each year the ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø Research and Innovation Office (RIO), awards grants in their New Frontiers Grant Program, an initiative that is designed to foster new, interdisciplinary research at ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø.
In 2025 three projects were selected that seek to improve understanding and address challenges in some of society’s most pressing issues. The teams were chosen through a competitive process that included eight in-person pitches. In all cases the new research strengths, based around interdisciplinary collaboration, expanded ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø opportunities.
RASEI Fellow Bri-Mathias Hodge, in collaboration with Shae Frydenlund from the Center for Asian Studies, was successful in proposing a project exploring the technological and social dimensions of geothermal development in Colorado. It has been identified that geothermal energy is an underutilized resource that could play a significant role in Colorado’s energy future. However, despite abundant resource potential in the state there are many significant yet poorly understood technological and social barriers to the expansion of deployment. This project will support an interdisciplinary team to explore these different perspectives and positions ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø to be a leader in the state in geothermal energy.Ìý