Renewable Geothermal Power Generation

Geothermal power generation is concentrated in a small number of countries which have the geothermal energy resources. Geothermal heating for district heating or commercial heating has accelerated and has a wide range of geothermal applications.

Geothermal Power News

$126m geothermal plant begins construction in US

08/05/2012 Enel Green Power S.p.A. (“EGP”), through its subsidiary Enel Green Power North America Inc., has begun construction of a $126m ...

Chile completes auction of 20 geothermal prospects

25/04/2012 Chile has completed the successful public auction of 20 areas for the exploitation of geothermal resources, the country's minis...

Honduras gives green light to geothermal project

19/04/2012 The Honduras parliament has approved the construction of a geothermal power plant in the district of La Union, in the departmen...

Ormat win contract for Kenyan geothermal plant

16/03/2012 Ormat Technologies has been awarded a contract by Kenyan government-owned Geothermal Development Company (GDC) for a well head ...

Ormat Technologies awarded geothermal power plant tender

17/02/2012 Ormat Technologies (NYSE: ORA) have announced that Geothermal Development Company (GDC), owned by Kenya, has awarded Ormat Inte...

European bank funds Caribbean geothermal study

02/02/2012

The European Investment Bank is to fund a feasibility study into the use of geothermal energy in the Caribbean.

California's future could lie with geothermal power

24/01/2012 Geothermal energy could become California's "bread and butter" baseload power as nuclear and gas-fired plants are ret...

Drive to increase renewable energy in Hawaii

09/01/2012 Officials from Hawaiian Electric Light Co (HELCO). are to seek regulatory approval to more than double the amount of geothermal...

New Zealand to join international geothermal-group

27/10/2011 New Zealand’s science and innovation minister Wayne Mapp has announced that the country will join the International Partnership...

Foreign investors see Kenya’s green energy potential

24/10/2011 The Kenyan government has said that international investors are becoming interestingly active in the country’s liberalised ener...

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