Maryland-based Geothermal Technologies has a plan that would provide — constant, day or night, year-round — clean energy that’s not dependent on solar panels or wind turbines.

Simply put, geothermal energy harvested from beneath the Earth’s surface can power our future.

Geothermal Technologies has since its inception in 2018 been working with world-renowned experts from Johns Hopkins University to develop a functional method of accessing stores of underground heat that can power turbines to create cost-effective electricity.

Studies have shown that this technology is possible throughout large parts of the US and Canada.

The company is developing what’s considered to be the fourth generation of engineered geothermal systems, which uses methods from oil and gas exploration to mine geothermal energy.

Chief Operating Officer Jim Hollis, a longtime member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, calls it a game changer in solving base-load power needs as it works to complement existing energy sources in providing clean energy to communities around the world.

"The search for alternative, renewable energy sources is becoming not only more important, but essential as the impacts from climate change worsen, and the dependency on fossil fuels continues to degrade air quality, damage crops and forests, and endanger wildlife," says a spokesman for Geothermal Technologies.