Geothermal

DOE Announces $11.4 Million for Projects Advancing Efficient Drilling for Geothermal Energy

Friday, 12 October 2018 REM The U.S. Department of Energy has selected seven projects totaling nearly $11.4 million to advance geothermal energy development. The projects will focus on accelerating the research and development of ...

Enel Develops SmartGEO Diagnostic Tool for Geothermal Plants

Monday, 01 October 2018 REM Enel Green Power, together with academic and research partners like the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and the University of Florence , both in Italy, and industrial partners like I.S.E and SDI ...

GTO Selects Eight Beyond Batteries Lab Call Projects to Receive Funding

Tuesday, 04 September 2018 REM The U.S. Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office has chosen eight projects to receive up to $2.4 million in funding via the Beyond Batteries Lab Call: Geothermal Energy Applications for ...

DOE Selects Utah University Site for FORGE Geothermal Project

Thursday, 28 June 2018 REM

The U.S. Department of Energy is providing the University of Utah with up to $140 million in continued funding over the next five years for cutting-edge geothermal research and development.

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 ...

Climeon Wins Geothermal Order in Germany

Monday, 19 February 2018 Dan McCue Swedish company, Climeon, has received its first major order for a geothermal power plant in Germany. On November 29, 2017, Climeon entered a LOI with Geoenergie Kirchweidach and now GEK has decided to ...

Kenyan Geothermal Project Set to Break Ground in March

Thursday, 18 January 2018 REM The Geothermal Development Company of Kenya has said the ground-breaking ceremony for the first of the three power plants to be constructed by Independent Power Producers at the Menengai Geothermal Project ...

Two Ethiopian Geothermal Projects Finalized

Tuesday, 19 December 2017 REM At a joint signing ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Tulu Moye Geothermal signed a 520 MW Power Purchase Agreement and Implementation Agreement (PPA/IA) with Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) and the Government ...

New Zealand

Top Energy agrees to contracts for expansion of New Zealand geothermal plant

Monday, 11 December 2017 Robin Whitlock New Zealand energy generation company Top Energy has agreed to contracts for the expansion of its Ngawha Geothermal Power Station, which will be one of the largest construction projects ever undertaken ...

Azores

Geothermal Plant in Azores Now Operational

Tuesday, 21 November 2017 Dan McCue The Pico Alto 4 MWe geothermal power plant on Terceira Island in the Azores has been officially inaugurated. The plant, designed and built by Italy’s EXERGY and the Portuguese company CME for EDA Renováveis, ...