# Profile: Tim Latimer — Fervo Energy

**Type:** source
**Status:** Useful
**Confidence:** Medium
**Source Type:** Official Website
**URL:** https://www.fervo.com/about
**Publisher:** Fervo Energy
**Accessed:** 2026-06-19
**Updated:** 2026-06-19

## Summary

Fervo Energy's official About page and public-facing press materials identify Tim Latimer as co-founder and CEO of the company. The page describes Fervo's mission to develop next-generation geothermal power using techniques drawn from horizontal drilling and modern reservoir engineering. Latimer's background — Stanford earth sciences PhD, prior work at BHP Billiton — appears in company-published bios and executive descriptions.

Supplementary public record includes Fervo's S-1 filing with the SEC (April 17, 2026; amended May 4, 2026; Nasdaq ticker FRVO), which constitutes a primary-source account of the company's history, executive team, and project pipeline including Cape Station in Beaver County, Utah.

## Useful Claims

- Tim Latimer is listed as co-founder and CEO of Fervo Energy.
- Fervo was founded in 2017.
- Company headquarters in Houston, TX.
- Latimer holds a PhD in earth sciences from Stanford University.
- Prior experience at BHP Billiton (oil and gas) before founding Fervo.
- Key technical thesis: apply horizontal drilling and completion methods from unconventional oil and gas to geothermal rock to produce enhanced geothermal systems (EGS).
- Cape Station described as a 400 MW EGS project in southwest Utah (Beaver County), near the Utah FORGE research site.
- Fervo also operates or has developed a pilot project in Nevada.
- Latimer has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (Energy) and MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35.
- The S-1/A (May 4, 2026) is a public SEC document and provides detailed financial and operational claims; figures there should be treated as disclosed estimates pending audit.

## Reliability Notes

The Fervo official website is a marketing source. Claims about project scale, production timelines, and impact should be cross-referenced against the S-1/S-1/A SEC filings, independent press coverage, and Utah FORGE research publications. The S-1 filings are primary legal disclosures and carry higher reliability for financial and structural facts, though they contain forward-looking statements that are not guarantees. Forbes and MIT Technology Review award recognition is verifiable via those publishers' archived lists.

## Related Pages

- [Tim Latimer](tim-latimer.md)
- [Fervo Energy](fervo-energy.md)

## See Also

- [Official Source: Fervo Cape Station Groundbreaking](fervo-cape-station-groundbreaking.md)