A unique collaborative effort by a consortium of Icelandic power companies and the Icelandic government to determine whether using supercritical geothermal fluids would improve the economics of power production from…
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Brussels, 17th May 2017 – EGEC, the European Geothermal Energy Council, has published the sixth edition of its annual study evaluating the development of the geothermal sector in Europe. In…
The first of three 110-MW units at the $1 billion Sarulla geothermal power plant in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province commenced commercial operation this March. When the next two units come…
First Unit of the Sarulla Geothermal Power Plant Starts to Provide Indonesia with 110 MW of Clean, Renewable Energy. Plant combines Toshiba’s flash and Ormat’s binary technologies to maximize efficiency…
Owner/operator: Akca Enerji Geothermal energy has long been handicapped by its need for high-temperature resources to generate economic power, but innovations in binary Organic Rankine Cycle systems are making it…
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--California will host the geothermal energy event of the year from October 23-26, just 9 weeks away. This event brings together key players in policy, technology, and industry…
The company recently opened a branch office in Jakarta to seize opportunities in the Southeast Asian market Ansaldo Energia has received Notices to Proceed on two contracts signed late in…
Geothermal energy may not be a large contributor to the U.S. power mix—it provided less than 0.5% of total U.S. generation in 2015—but it is a reliable and dispatchable renewable…
Owner/operator: Kenya Electricity Generating Co. Kenya plans to produce the bulk of its electricity from geothermal power. The recent 280-MW expansion at its Olkaria fields has shown how beneficial the…
After years of stressing the conventional virtues of geothermal power production—reliable, baseload renewable energy from geological sources—the geothermal industry and the U.S. government are looking at ways technology can change…