Two next-generation geothermal companies moved closer to the grid on the same day. Quaise Energy was picked for up to $25 million in Department of Energy support for its superhot plant in Oregon. Sage Geosystems chose Ormat’s Blue Mountain power plant in Nevada as the site for its next commercial-scale enhanced geothermal system (EGS). Different technologies, different business models. Same destination: firm power, around the clock, from rock that conventional geothermal can’t use.