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 ...

Iceland Drilling Company Signs Contract for Geothermal Project on St. Vincent

Friday, 30 November 2018 REM St. Vincent Geothermal Company Limited and Jardboranir hf. (Icelandic Drilling Company, IDC) have signed a contract for drilling four wells in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The wells are intended to ...

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 ...

Flores is Test-Bed for New Geothermal Guidelines

Friday, 27 April 2018 Dan McCue The Indonesian island of Flores is the test-bed of newly adapted classification guidelines for geothermal projects. Called the ‘UNFC Geothermal Specifications,’ this United Nations’ adapted resource ...

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 ...

Italy

Governments Adopt ‘Florence Declaration’ and Agree to Work to Advance Geothermal Energy

Friday, 15 September 2017 REM Governments have agreed to work together to identify and implement measures that will significantly increase the speed of geothermal energy development around the world, following a milestone meeting between ...

Government and Private Sector Leaders to Meet on Geothermal Energy Potential

Tuesday, 05 September 2017 Dan McCue Leaders and ministers from more than 25 governments will attend the Global Geothermal Alliance (GGA) conference, ‘Working Together to Promote Geothermal Energy Towards a Sustainable Energy Future’, ...

Global Geothermal Alliance launched at COP 21

Wednesday, 09 December 2015 Robin Whitlock A coalition of 38 countries and over 20 development and industry partners have joined forces at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), to increase the share of geothermal energy in the global ...

New tool helps identify global geothermal potentials

Thursday, 16 April 2015 Robin Whitlock

A new tool to investigate global geothermal energy potentials is now available online, just ahead of next week’s World Geothermal Congress in Melbourne, Australia