Jason Sorter is Director of Policy and Community Engagement for Geothermal Rising and a senior clean energy policy and strategic communications professional with over 14 years of experience advancing renewable energy policies and deployment at the federal, state and local levels.

Geothermal Rising (GR) serves to build community and empower the geothermal industry by championing all geothermal technologies and applications. Formed in 1972, GR is the oldest geothermal association on Earth, serving as the main professional, industry, and academic association for the geothermal community and public. GR empowers the advancement of human understanding and practical use of geothermal energy through collaboration and communication of robust research, education, knowledge, and guidance. Our vision is to use the Earth to save the Earth and to create a brighter future for Earth and all its inhabitants, powered by the planet itself.

Jason currently leads policy development of the geothermal industry supported by the vision of the Geothermal Rising Policy Committee (GRPC) and helps to develop strategies of aligned geothermal technologies and applications poised to solve the climate crisis and to empower the existing knowledge, skills and passion of the oil and gas industry into a clean, renewable, and just energy economy.

The Geothermal Rising Policy Committee (GRPC) is the voice of the geothermal industry to external audiences and stakeholders who make and influence policy. The GRPC promotes all technologies and applications that use the clean and renewable energy of the Earth to heat and cool our homes and businesses, manufacture goods, produce food, and generate zero-carbon electricity.