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Geothermal News
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Four geothermal fields to joint venture Terna Energiaki and ITA
Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change decided about the leasing of four geothermal fields in Evros, Mestos, Samothraki and Chios to the joint venture Terna Energiaki - ITA for researches of EUR 190mil.
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Munich Re insures Traunreut geothermal project as well
This week sees the start of drilling operations at the site of a geothermal power plant in Traunreut, Upper Bavaria. In early September, a 60-metre-high drilling rig will be erected and initial drilling operations will commence later that same month. Following investments to the tune of €60m, the plant will in future supply up to 5 MW of electrical and 12 MW of thermal, district-heating power from two wells approximately 5,000 metres deep.
Geofar News
Thursday, April 28, 2011
GEOFAR’s Seminars Proceedings Uploaded on the Website
All the proceedings from GEOFAR’s awareness seminars (Madrid, Lisbon, Budapest, Plovdiv, Bratislava) as well as for the final two-day conference in Athens have been uploaded on the website www.geofar.eu.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Postponement of the «GEOFAR: Innovative Solutions for Geothermal Energy Financing» Conference – New Dates and Venue: Athens, 17 & 18 March, 2011
The Institute of Energy for SE Europe (IENE) regrets to announce the postponement of the “GEOFAR: Innovative Solutions for Geothermal Energy Financing” conference,that was to take place on February 24 and 25, 2011, in Thessaloniki, due to the nationwide strike announced by all major trade unions for February 23 and the difficulties arising in transportation for the majority of speakers and participants, as there will be no incoming or outgoing flights from Greece on that day.
GEOFAR Success Stories
Thursday, May 19, 2011
GeoRiMi subject to the forthcoming Spanish Renewable Energy Plan
In Spain the new renewable energy plan 2011 – 2020 was prepared and is almost finalised. The GEOFAR partner IGME Sp. was involved in the preparation of the REP and introduced the geothermal risk mitigation system (GeoRiMi).
Sunday, May 15, 2011
GeoRiMi of interest for other parts of the world
Mr. Masahiko KANEKO, from West Japan Engineering Consultants, Inc. (WestJEC) had joined the session at World Geothermal Congress 2010 where GEOFAR had been presented by Mr. Marco Wendel.