ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 16, 2024

Heat from the Earth warms one side of the module and cold air from Antarctica cools the other. Source: UPNA The post UPNA team produces geothermal power in Antarctica with thermoelectric tech first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 8, 2024

The ground is humming with geothermal energy that could heat or cool our homes – and now the big US utilities are starting to take note Along with earthworms, rocks, and the occasional skeleton, there is a massive battery right under your feet. I really don’t think there’s any more efficient or better way to heat and cool our homes.”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 2, 2024

ORIX Corporation (ORIX) has announced the start of commercial operations of the Minami-Kayabe Geothermal Power Plant in the Minami-Kayabe region of Hakodate City in Hokkaido, Japan. MW, it is now the largest binary cycle geothermal power plant in Japan. With a capacity of 6.5

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

If as mentioned above we focus on the conventional already widely adopted technologies, there are three broad categories of geothermal use: Geothermal with heat pumps Geothermal direct use heat Geothermal power Where geothermal is hot enough to deliver power, there can sometimes be option to combine the above.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 26, 2024

Bukotermal, a joint venture company owned by the Varazdin County (85%) and the Mali Bukovec municipality (15%), has started the design and permitting phase for a proposed 16-MW geothermal power project in Varazdin County in Croatia. Two new injection wells are also planned to be drilled on this piece of land. kilometers.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 28, 2024

Contact Energy has provided progress updates for the Tauhara geothermal power project in New Zealand, maintaining a target commercial operations date by winter (June to August) 2024. Through recent year, Contact Energy has provided several updates on the construction of the Tauhara geothermal power plant.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Editor’s note: The Sihuangziping geothermal power project is also referred to in other sources as the Liuhuangziping geothermal power project. A groundbreaking ceremony for the 4-MW Sihuangziping geothermal power plant Jinshan, New Taipei City in Taiwan was held on the 20th of November 2023.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 20, 2024

” – a walk-in underground shaft that provides a close view to the inner workings of the university’s geothermal heating and cooling system. Inside this shaft, visitors can see where twelve geothermal probes come together and are distributed to provide either heating or cooling to lecture hall B9.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Geothermal power is a low-carbon source of energy with no intermittent problems. However, the costs associated with drilling wells in deep and hard-rock formations, where temperatures are hot enough for electricity production, makes it difficult to compete with other technologies aimed at power generation. Porlles et al.,

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Department of Energy (US DOE) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) have published a Request for Information (RFI) to evaluate novel approaches to superhot enhanced geothermal power for generating electricity and other uses. Drilling (e.g., Well construction (e.g., Well stimulation (e.g., Section 4: Other I.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) recently celebrated the 40th year anniversary of the Tongonan geothermal power plant in the Leyte geothermal field of the Philippines. After several years of intensive exploration and development work, the Tongonan-1 geothermal power plant was inaugurated on July 02, 1983.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 7, 2024

Benjamin Burke, Chief Executive Officer, Gradient Geothermal. “We Pierce can be a world-class ‘geothermal garden’ where both heat and electricity from geothermal power benefit the entire town and provide jobs for a workforce familiar with oil and gas.”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

It finds that shallow geothermal sources can be used for heating residential, commercial, or industrial buildings, as well as for cooling spaces during the warm season using the same infrastructure. The document examines existing wells and their technical documentation from the archives of the Agency for Geology and Mineral Resources.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The cooled fluid is reinjected underground, minimizing environmental impact and sustaining the process. This differs from traditional geothermal energy, which relies on natural reservoirs of hot water or steam. The water circulates through the hot rock, absorbing thermal energy and transforming into steam.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 22, 2024

About Baseload Capital Baseload Capital is a specialized investment entity that leads partnerships to scale up geothermal power deployment worldwide. Geothermal power comes from the Earth’s inner core and provides a fossil-free, stable, 24/7 available baseload for electricity and heating and cooling.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 26, 2020

Global geothermal capacity is anticipated to grow by 28% by 2024, with Asia responsible for one-third of global expansion. is the world leader in terms of megawatts of geothermal power capacity, followed by Indonesia, Turkey and New Zealand. There are two main types of geothermal power facilities.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Contact Energy (Contact) has developed a way to capture the small amount of naturally occurring carbon dioxide released during geothermal power generation at the Ohaaki geothermal site near Taupo, New Zealand. MW Te Huka Unit 3 geothermal power station.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Beyond the 16 GW of installed geothermal power capacity as of the end of 2022, there is currently also about 173 GW of installed geothermal heating capacity according to a recent “Facts for Future” webinar episode by the International Geothermal Association (IGA).

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Australian geothermal developer Earths Energy (EE1) has announced the commencement of a scoping study to assess the viability of constructing geothermally powered data centres at its strategically located Queensland projects.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The report places a special highlight on “next-generation” geothermal technologies such as Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) and closed-loop Advanced Geothermal Systems (AGS). Such technologies can greatly expand the geographical scope of where geothermal power and heating can be developed.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Icelandic construction company ISTAK has started work on the new power station building as part of the expansion work at the Svartsengi geothermal power plant in Iceland. ISTAK is also in charge of coordination and safety issues at the work site. “Delivery time for critical equipment is long as expected.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Bago site in Negros Occidental was previously the site of the Northern Negros geothermal power project by EDC. The project had been shut down in 2010 amidst concerns over the steam field’s capability of supporting the 49-MW power plant. The power plant was eventually relocated to the Nasulo field in Negros Oriental.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 14, 2024

has signed an agreement with HS Orka for the delivery and installation of the equipment for the expansion of the Svartsengi geothermal power plant in Iceland, as well as a framework agreement for contractor services. Expansion work at the Svartsengi geothermal power plant broke ground in early 2023.

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Grist

APRIL 10, 2020

There’s another form of renewable energy, however, that might see a benefit from the recent global economic upheaval and emerge in a better position to help the United States decarbonize its electricity system: geothermal. But compared to wind and solar farms, geothermal power plants are expensive to build.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JULY 1, 2024

Without local heating and cooling facilities, the country has had to import milk powder from India and fresh produce from South Africa. Development of geothermal power generation can answer these challenges by providing climate-resilient and sustainable baseload power, as well as energy for heating and cooling facilities.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The recording of the first webinar “ Navigating Geothermal Data on the Road to COP28,” can be accessed via this link. For geothermal this means, tripling the installed geothermal power generation capacity of 16 GW to 48 GW by the end of 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Closed-loop geothermal systems: The cost of drilling would need to decrease significantly to hit cost targets, according to the study (Illustration by Ray Johnson/Sandia National Laboratories). Probing potent parameters The Sandia team looked at two basic setups for closed-loop geothermal systems.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The project has successfully developed technologies , such as the GeoSmart flexible power plants, to become highly adaptable energy providers while maintaining baseload power sources. Moreover, geothermal provides unmatched flexibility in balancing fluctuating energy demands.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. Fervo Energy is a next-generation geothermal power developer. Electricity.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Dandelion Energy raised a $70M Series B-1 round to install geothermal heating and cooling solutions. Fervo Energy announced a 20 MW power purchase agreement to provide 24/7, carbon-free geothermal power to a group of nine California-based community choice aggregators.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 27, 2024

Improving methods to build those wells and assess their performance can reduce costs for EGS and other geothermal power generation technologies, helping make geothermal electricity a clean, cost-effective option. Innovative Downhole Solutions, Inc.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In 2022, 1,476 PJ (410 TWh) of geothermal energy has been used globally, a 44% increase from 2020, among them, the geothermal heating and cooling of buildings accounted for about 79% of the total.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Sinopec Green Energy shareholders during the World Geothermal Congress 2023 in Beijing, China. With 18 years of successful operation in China, Sinopec Green Energy has emerged as the global leader in geothermal heating and cooling, serving over 70 cities and municipalities across 7 of the 9 Northern Chinese provinces.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Northern California Power Agency’s (NCPA) geothermal power plant at The Geysers in the Mayacamas Mountains of Sonoma and Lake Counties in Northern California. GW of geothermal power installed around the world—has helped the geothermal industry to grow. And we have been involved in an additional 2.5

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Global Renewable News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Project InnerSpace has launched GeoMap India, highlighting the enormous potential for untapped geothermal energy to become a crucial part of India's clean energy mix as it seeks to spur economic g.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 28, 2024

PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGEO) has implemented a Joint Study Agreement (JSA) with PT Elnusa Tbk (Elnusa), PT PGAS Solutions (PGASOL), and PT Pertamina Maintenance and Construction (PertaMC) to develop technology solutions for geothermal and explore opportunities for domestic production of a number of geothermal power plant components.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 19, 2024

Echoing this sentiment, Luca Xodo, Steam’s Global Sales and Partnerships Director and current ETIP Geothermal Chairman , added: “Direct Use Geothermal is the next chapter in our industry.

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