Geothermal Fluids News
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Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH, winner of the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2024
EGEC is thrilled to announce Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH as the recipient of the prestigious Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2024. The award recognises Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH’s innovative project, the Lithium Extraction Optimization Plant (LEOP) from geothermal, designed to revolutionise the production of sustainable lithium in ...
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Sage Geosystems' Landmark Full-scale Commercial Pilot
Sage Geosystems Inc., a geothermal baseload and energy storage company, this week (Sept 12) announced groundbreaking results and data from their full-scale commercial pilot confirming the performance of its energy storage system that can provide short- or long-duration storage (EarthStore ). Further, the results show Sage's technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage ...
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The Biden-Harris Electric Vehicle Charging Action Plan
President Biden, American families, automakers, and autoworkers agree: the future of transportation is electric. The electric car future is cleaner, more equitable, more affordable, and an economic opportunity to support good-paying, union jobs across American supply chains as automakers continue investing in manufacturing clean vehicles and the batteries that power them.This week, the Biden ...
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ENGIE Solutions is the geothermal innovator of the year with the multidrains boreholes
This year the winner of the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2021 is ENGIE Solutions with its innovative multidrains boreholes well architecture. This project, developed by ENGIE Solutions and built with Antea Group and other partners, can almost double the productivity of a geothermal reservoir. The multidrains technology has been designed for a new geothermal district ...
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GeoInnAwards2021 Nominees: On power
On power has been chosen as one of the six exceptional nominees of the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Awards 2021 with “Geothermal Park” project. The Geothermal Park is an innovative geothermal eco-industrial park located in Iceland. It is connected to the Hellisheidi geothermal combined heat and power plant, one of the largest geothermal plants in the world. ...
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Best Geothermal Energy Presentations of 2017 Announced
The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) has announced the outstanding technical presentations from the global geothermal energy community for 2017. The selections were made in each of the GRC Technical Sessions held in early October at the 41st GRC Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, the world’s largest annual geothermal energy event. The judging criteria included the technical ...
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Enel and ENAP Inaugurate South America`s First Geothermal Power Plant Cerro Pabellón
Enel and ENAP inaugurated Cerro Pabellón, which is the first geothermal power plant in South America and the world's first large-scale facility of this kind to be built at 4,500 meters above sea level. The inauguration ceremony, which follows the start of operations at the second of the plant's two 24 MW-units, was opened by Chile's President Michelle Bachelet and attended by Chile's ...
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One of the World`s Largest Geothermal Power Plants Commences Commercial Operation
Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) and Ormat Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ORA) today announced that the first unit of the Sarulla geothermal power plant, one of the world's largest power plants, located in Indonesia's North Sumatra, has commenced commercial operation. The approximately 110 MW power plant, which combines flash and binary technologies to provide a high efficiency power plant and 100% ...
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Firms invests in EnergySource hoping to make mineralextraction a reality
As a way to continue to invest in what looks to be apromising technology for mineral extraction fromgeothermal brine, a Texasbased investment firm MillsCapital Group, LLC acquired 38 percent of the ownershipinterest in EnergySource.EnergySource operates the Featherstone Geothermal Plant inCalipatria, which is the most recently built plant in the SaltonSea known geothermal resource area.The ...
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Best Geothermal Energy Presentations of 2013 Announced
The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) has announced the outstanding presentations from the global geothermal community for 2013. The judging was made in each of the technical sessions held in late September/early October at the 37th GRC Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, the world’s largest annual geothermal energy event. The judging criteria included the technical content, the quality of the ...
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Ormat successfully completed the Ngatamariki Geothermal Plant
Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced today that it has successfully completed the 100 MW installed capacity Ngatamariki geothermal power plant in New Zealand under the $142 million Supply and Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts signed with Mighty River Power (MRP) in June 2011. Mighty River Power’s modular Ngatamariki geothermal power plant is the largest ...
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Success with Enhanced Geothermal Systems Changing the Future of Geothermal Power in the U.S.
Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA), the U.S. Department of Energy and GeothermEx successfully produced 1.7 additional megawatts from an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) project inside an existing wellfield in the U.S. This is the first EGS project to be connected to the electricity grid. Using innovative subsurface technologies, research and development teams stimulated an existing ...
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The 330 MW Sarulla Geothermal Power Project in Indonesia Signed Project Agreements
Ormat named power plant technology provider. Among the world’s largest single-contract geothermal power plant. Project company expects to complete financing and begin construction in one year Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced today that Sarulla Operations Ltd. (SOL) has signed a Joint Operating Contract (JOC) and Energy Sales Contract (ESC) for the 330 MW Sarulla geothermal ...
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The 330 MW Sarulla Geothermal Power Project In Indonesia Signed Project Agreements
RENO, Nev., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced today that Sarulla Operations Ltd. (SOL) has signed a Joint Operating Contract (JOC) and Energy Sales Contract (ESC)for the 330 MW Sarulla geothermal power project in Tapanuli Utara, North Sumatra in Indonesia. Ormat participation in this project includes two roles. Ormat designed the plant and will supply ...
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U.S. Geothermal Industry Sees Continued Steady Growth in 2012
The Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) today released its 2013 Annual GEA Industry Update, which found that installed geothermal capacity in the United States grew by 5%, or 147.05 MW, since the last annual survey in March 2012. This considerable increase in capacity is part of a larger trend of steady geothermal growth over the past decade, and can be attributed to seven geothermal projects ...
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Geothermal Industry Ends 2012 on a High Note
The past 12 months saw continued economic challenges for many American industries, including those in the renewable energy field, but the country’s geothermal community witnessed a year of growth, both domestically and abroad. The Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) today expressed optimism for 2013, while looking back on a difficult, yet ultimately successful 2012. U.S. Geothermal ...
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New California Law Boosts Sustainable Materials Industry
California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Friday Assembly Bill 2205, which clears the way for a new, revolutionary materials industry in California. AB 2205, authored by Assembly Member V. Manuel Pérez (D-Coachella) and co-authored by Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett (D-San Leandro), brings state regulation up to speed with innovative new ...
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Simbol Materials Receives 2012 Geothermal Energy Association Special Recognition Award
Simbol Materials received a Special Recognition award from the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) for making significant contributions to the geothermal industry. Simbol Materials is commercializing transformative technology to extract lithium, manganese, zinc and other critical materials from the brines of geothermal power plants in Southern California. The company ...
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Two-day Geothermal Geochemistry Workshop Announced by GRC
The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) and the California Geothermal Energy Collaborative (CGEC) will hold a two-day geothermal workshop to be held at the University of California, Davis, on July 19-20, 2012. Titled “Recent Advances in Geothermal Geochemistry”, the workshop will interest professionals in the geothermal industry and graduate students interested in geothermal systems. ...
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OPIC Board Approves $310 Million for Geothermal Project in Kenya
The Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, today approved up to $310 million in financing for a project that will double the generating capacity of a geothermal power plant in Kenya, adding new electricity to the country’s grid through the use of ...
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