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- Fervo Energy is the OG of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) with significant historical milestones in collaboration with its longtime homie, the US Department of Energy.
- DOE Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) may imminently throw fat stacks of cash at Fervo driving their project cost of debt down to the US Treasury rate plus a minimal spread.
- The One Big Beautiful Bill maintained Section 48E Investment Tax Credits for geothermal projects allowing up to 50% of the capital cost to be transferred as tax credits through 2033, juicing Fervo’s project returns like a middle-aged man on steroids.
- Combining incredibly cheap DOE EDF debt with fat commercial bank ITC bridge loans allows Fervo to potentially only front 13% of the hard capital to build these hot water energy spas without issuing a single share of dilutive stock.
- As Jensen Huang keeps warning, the primary bottleneck to AI datacenter deployment is power availability which provides Fervo a unique opportunity to pimp out Enhanced Geothermal energy as the only scalable, 24/7 carbon-free baseload source between now and the mid 2030’s.
The stock has been completely cucked due to management’s disclosure that power offtake into California is restricted in 2027 for Phase 1, their originally planned route for Phase 2 into California won’t be available until 2030+, likely litigation due to a seemingly botched S-1, a short report on their technology from Morpheus Research, and roughly 224 million shares being unlocked in early November. Add some potential tax loss harvesting and it looks like a murder scene in Fervo land.
Here’s the thing though, do the 2027 restricted cashflows actually matter to the long term outlook? I think not, especially when you see Google immediately step in to take the power.
Does potentially a S-1 filing that will be studied for all the wrong reasons in law school make the underlying use of fracturing in geothermal have less potential? I think not.
Does the Morpheus Research report read like it was written by a liberal arts major with no technical background? I think so!
Tidal Wave Technologies published a quick writeup to dismiss some of the Morpheus Report’s claims but Morpheus’s analysis is so whack it’s like an early LLM model trying to guess how many r’s are in strawberry: https://tidalwavetechnologies.com/morpheus-researchs-recent-report-on-fervo-energy-a-mythbusters-like-approach-to-assessing-their-claims/
These little “keyboard warriors” as the CEO of Fervo likes to call the naysayers are apparently short the stock, good for them.
What I’d love to see next is Fervo’s pre-IPO shareholders (Devon Energy, TIF Partners, DCVC, Google, Breakthrough Energy, and CalSTRS - many underwater now from the December 2025 Series E-1) issue 8-K’s or Schedule 13D/As stating that they are voluntarily extending their holding period for six to twelve months or until specific price targets or operational hurdles are met. There are several examples of this happening: Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg in 2012, Twitter with Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Benchmark Capital in 2014.
That being said, let’s dig into why I think Fervo is going to be the AI Buildout Dominatrix.
Fervo’s Romantic Romp with the DOE
Fervo and the DOE go way back like an old married couple who met in high school. Let’s review their sordid affairs:
- 2021-Pre