Pertamina accelerating development with $644m budget for development in 2016
Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE) is allocating $644 million for its geothermal operations and business development in 2016, as reported by Indonesia Business Daily. Director of PGE Irfan Zainuddin...
View ArticleEntering a new phase on marketing for the geothermal energy sector
ThinkGeoEnergy has been growing much over the past few years and is now the most read geothermal news website. But we are not standing still. We will do some tweaks to our site in the coming weeks,...
View ArticleTurboden & Mitsubishi HI launch operations in Turkey, delivers first...
Turboden, a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), established its daughter company, Turboden Turkey ORC Turbo Jenerato?r Sanayi Anonim S?irketi, in Ankara in April this year. The new...
View ArticleJob: PhD position on EGS at Helmholtz Centre at the GFZ in Potsdam, Germany
The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is the national research centre for Earth sciences in Germany. With approx. 1,180 employees, the GFZ is conducting...
View ArticleGates, Zuckerberg and other billionaires launch clean energy investment...
Reported by several news outlets and posted by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, a group around Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and another two dozen billionaires have launched a new clean energy...
View ArticleAfrican Union launching $20 billion renewable energy initiative
Reported yesterday from the COP21 meetings in Paris, the African Union, an alliance of 54 countries, “launched a plan to mobilize $20 billion to develop at least 10,000 MW of renewable energy on the...
View ArticleReykjavik Geothermal secures $1m GRMF grant for studies on Ethiopian project
The African Union Commission (AUC), through its’ Department of Infrastructure and Energy, and Reykjavik Geothermal ehf signed a Grant Contract for financial support – totalling USD 1,314,000, to...
View ArticleFrench Minister of Energy Ségolène Royal supports Global Geothermal Alliance
Yesterday morning representatives from France, Iceland and the Comoros, as well as the Director-General of IRENA attended a high-level meeting on the development of geothermal energy. As a member of...
View ArticleU.S. funding opportunity: $4m for Critical Materials Recovery from Geothermal...
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable energy has launched a funding opportunity for critical materials recovery from geothermal fluids. The intent of this Funding...
View ArticleCosta Rica to use $500m IDB credit line for renewable energy development
Reported last weekend, Costa Rica plans to use a credit line over $500 million from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for development of renewable energy projects and the expansion of...
View ArticleGlobal Geothermal Alliance to officially launch December 7, 2015
At a meeting yesterday, IRENA hosted a high-level workshop during the COP21 meetings in Paris. The main theme was the potential of geothermal energy and ways to overcome the barriers which hold it...
View ArticleOregon geothermal project fails due to cheap fossil fuels
Reported locally, Klamath Basin Geopower, which had plans to develop a geothermal power project near Klamath Falls, Oregon has filed for bankruptcy last week. Bill Honjas, president and CEO of Klamath...
View ArticlePutting a price on carbon to level playing field for renewables, COP21
In a blog post by the World Bank it is reported that six heads of state and government and the leaders of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund today called on companies and...
View ArticleVideo: Enel’s Stillwater hybrid geothermal-solar plant in Nevada
Enel Green Power recently published a great video introducing its Stillwater hybrid geothermal-solar power plant in Nevada. With great pictures, an aerial overview and interviews it provides a...
View ArticleAuction re-opened for 110 MW geothermal working area at Lake Ranau, Indonesia
In news yesterday from Indonesia, it is reported that the auction has been reopened for work areas or blocks of the Lake Ranau geothermal working area with an expected 110 MW potential on the border of...
View ArticleCOP21 meeting on geothermal direct use opportunities, Dec. 8, 2015
As part of the events of the Nordic Council of Ministers at the climate meetings/ COP21 in Paris, an event will be held on Geothermal Direct Use. Title: Geothermal Direct Use Location: Nordic Council...
View ArticleNominations open for European Geothermal Innovation Award 2016
Established by the European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC), the European Geothermal Innovation Award is given to companies which have made an outstanding contribution towards the field of geothermal...
View ArticleOrmat to buy majority stake in La Bouillante geothermal plant in Guadeloupe
Ormat Technologies, Inc. announced today it has signed a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to acquire, gradually, 85% of Geothermie Bouillante SA (GB) at a total company enterprise value of up...
View ArticleChile: Nearly no projects despite large number of concessions described as...
Although there have until today been awarded 330,228 hectares of geothermal concessions in Chile, there is currently only one project on a 136 hectares concession being actively developed today. The...
View ArticleLacking government support kills geothermal heating ambitions in Denmark
With the ongoing climate meetings in Paris, France there are some sad news coming from Denmark. Often described as a renewable energy haven with its wind parks, people biking everywhere etc. it is now...
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