Steps Energy to invite Thermal Energy Providers (TEP), a USA company, to execute a "Technical & Commercial Assessment Study" for the hot spring in Al Ghumayqah in Al Lieth area. The study was followed by a financial assessment study by one of the largest financial companies in the world.
The "technical & commercial Assessment" and the "financial assessment" studies performed by Steps Energy were the first try in Saudi Arabia to move from geothermal academic studies into feasible business proposal.