Europe
Italian and Turkish geothermal could replace nuclear across EU
Tuesday, 29 March 2011 As arguments for and against nuclear power heat up in light of the Japanese nuclear crisis, attention is turning to alternative sources of power. Renewable energies are clearly the way forward, but th...
Bolivia
Japan to provide $500 million loan for 100-MW geothermal plant
Friday, 11 March 2011 The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has announced the granting of a loan of $500 million (€350 million) to build a geothermal plant at Laguna Colorada, in the Bolivian town of Uy...
Geothermal’s popularity rises, global capacity could double by 2020
Tuesday, 08 March 2011 A new report by Pike Research shows that the global community’s interest in geothermal power is on the up, predicting that capacity could rise from 10.7 gigawatts (GW) to as much as 25.1 GW by 2...
Unexpected turn at Icelandic research site leads to test of magma’s energy potential
Friday, 25 February 2011 Dan McCue Could pools of underground lava become an attractive source of high-grade energy? That’s the question researchers will be asking when a pilot geothermal plant tapping the magma flow at Iceland&r...
It doesn’t have to cost the earth: geothermal start-up bags $750 million of project finance
Thursday, 24 February 2011 Toby Price Newly-created LVestus Energy, Inc., which offers “utility-like delivery” of geothermal energy through self-funded ground-source heat exchangers, has announced that it has secured $750 mill...
India
Tata Power in race to benefit from forthcoming geothermal energy policy
Thursday, 17 February 2011 Toby Price As India works to draw up a new geothermal energy policy, the Tata Power Company Limited, India’s largest integrated private power company, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) wi...
Turkey
Enel in search of Turkish hot rocks
Thursday, 03 February 2011 The Enel Group's renewables specialist, Enel Green Power, has been allocated a package of 142 licenses to explore the potential of geothermal resources in Turkey, in cooperation with the Turkish indus...
Enel Green Power reaches agreement for development of geothermal energy in Turkey
Tuesday, 25 January 2011 Enel Green Power (EGP) has reached an agreement with the Turkish industrial group Uzun for the development of geothermal plants in Turkey. The agreement, through which EGP received a package of 142 ex...
Singer Bjork petitions Iceland to stop sale of state-owned geothermal firm HS Orka
Wednesday, 19 January 2011The Icelandic singer Bjork has presented a petition to Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, protesting against the sale of state-owned geothermal firm HS Orka to a Canadian company.
President of Iceland to deliver the keynote address at upcoming GEA Geothermal Energy Finance Forum
Tuesday, 11 January 2011 President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson of Iceland, whose country’s commitment to renewable energy includes having nearly 25 percent of its power produced geothermally, will deliver the k...
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