Geothermal

Carbfix and Eavor, Geothermal Innovators of the Year

Wednesday, 27 May 2020 REM

This year the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2020 was earned by the Icelandic Carbfix project and German company Eavor on equal merit.

AfDB Welcomes $10 Million Clean Technology Fund Investment to Diversify Ethiopia’s Energy Mix

Friday, 08 May 2020 REM The African Development Bank has welcomed a decision by the Trust Fund Committee of the Clean Technology Fund, one of two funds within the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), to extend a $10 million concessional ...

Razor Energy Receives Funding for Geothermal Power Project

Monday, 08 July 2019 REM Razor Energy, based in Alberta, Canada, and its partners, the federal government, through Natural Resources Canada (“NRCan”) and Alberta Innovates, have announced funding of a co-produced geothermal ...

Addressing Food Security and Boosting Development with Geothermal Heat

Wednesday, 17 April 2019 REM As a mainstream source of global power generation, the progress of renewable energy over the last decade has been rapid. In 2018, renewables accounted for around a quarter of global electricity and around ...

Sweden

Climeon's Founder Thomas Öström Named Swedish Person of the Year

Thursday, 31 January 2019 Dan McCue

Swedish magazine Fokus has named Climeon's founder and CEO Thomas Öström Swedish Person of the Year in the Innovation category.

Saskatchewan

Trudeau Announces Support for Canada’s First Geothermal Power Facility

Friday, 11 January 2019 REM Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced support for a new geothermal power facility near Estevan in Southeastern Saskatchewan. The energy project, led by DEEP Earth Energy Production Corporation, ...

Italy

Support for Italian geothermal industry to be cut by new government decree

Thursday, 15 November 2018 Robin Whitlock The Italian government, in a draft decree that includes negotiation on new support schemes for renewables, intends to unilaterally cut support to geothermal energy in the country, a vicious attack against ...

Kenya

African Development Bank and Climate Investment Funds support the first private sector geothermal power plant in Kenya

Thursday, 14 June 2018 Robin Whitlock The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved loans to Quantum Power East Africa GT Menengai Ltd to support the development of a 35 MW geothermal power plant at the Menengai geothermal field in Nakuru ...

IRENA, IGA and World Bank Team Up to Streamline Geothermal Energy Development

Thursday, 05 April 2018 Robin Whitlock The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the International Geothermal Association (IGA) and the World Bank have teamed up to gather and classify new geothermal resource data, with the support ...

EU supports geothermal energy in the eastern Caribbean

Friday, 24 November 2017 Robin Whitlock

The European Union (EU) has announced the formalisation of an EU grant contribution to the Geothermal Risk Mitigation Programme for the Eastern Caribbean.