geothermal energy
The global geothermal energy market continues to grow significantly in 2012. However, in the US, the world’s largest producer of geothermal power, growth has slowed. So which countries are fueling the surge in geothermal development? Let’s take a look: Much of the progress is occurring in East Africa,
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Electricity utility Landsvirkjun plans to build the world’s longest submarine power cable to connect with the proposed European offshore “supergrid.” Iceland is poised to begin exporting its surplus geothermal energy to Europe, thereby boosting its economy and increasing the share of the continent’s power needs which can be
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The US is betting that new ways of extracting geothermal energy from the Earth could help put it on the path to better energy security. Eight innovative geothermal projects in five states will receive up to $11.3 million from the US Department of Energy (DOE) in hopes of advancing
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The hunt is on for the next source of clean and reliable energy: heat from deep below the Earth’s surface. In the UK, officials launched that hunt today with the announcement of a new £6 million Deep Geothermal Challenge Fund. Part of the Department of Energy and Climate Change’
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Geothermal energy firm EGS Energy and the Eden Project have come together to build the UK’s first geothermal plant. As reported in The Guardian, the two organisations announced the project today in Westminster. Under the proposed scheme, EGS would build a geothermal plant that would draw heat energy from
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Clean fuel innovator Oxford Catalysts Group PLC has signed an agreement with Potter Drilling, a google.org-funded company, to explore the incorporation of Oxford Catalysts’ Instant Steam technology into Potter Drilling’s hydrothermal drilling technology to use superheated fluid for drilling through hard rocks. Under the terms of the agreement,
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The US Department of Energy this week new funding of up to $84 million (US) to promote the development of enhanced geothermal energy systems. Enhanced geothermal systems have the potential to expand current use of the Earth’s heat energy. While most US geothermal facilities are concentrated in the west,
