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County allocates geothermal funds

County allocates geothermal funds The Churchill County Commissioners approved the allocation of reimbursed geothermal rents and royalties Thursday and will use the funds to decrease the required employee furlough days from 10 to seven a year among other things. Read more on Lahontan Valley News Magma Energy Completes Purchase of 98.5% of Icelandic Geothermal Company […]

Nevada Geothermal Power Announces Private Placement, Total Funds C$10,000,000

Nevada Geothermal Power Announces Private Placement, Total Funds C,000,000 VANCOUVER, British Columbia—-Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. , today announced that it will proceed with a non-brokered private placement for up to 20,000,000 units at a price of CNevada Geothermal Power Announces Private Placement, Total Funds C,000,000 VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. (NGP) (TSX.V: NGP, […]

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY IN ARGENTINA

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY IN ARGENTINA The Government of the province of Neuquén, Argentina, through its Agency for Investment Promotion and Development (Agencia de Promocion y Desarrollo de Inversiones – ADI-Nqn), has launched a Public Call to Investors interested in developing proposals for the award of an exploration contract to discover and produce endogenous steam in the […]

Icelandic geothermal plant

A few nice GEOTHERMAL ENERGY images I found: Icelandic geothermal plant Image by futureatlas.com Hellisheidi geothermal power plant Image by ThinkGeoEnergy

Q&A: Geothermal power?

Question by Philip Augustus: Geothermal power? why don’t we utilize more Geothermal power? I know most of that is available on the west coast. But isn’t it cheaper and more constant than solar or wind? solar you have to have expensive equipment. where Geothermal is available, you dig a deep hole. dump in water. and […]

Constellation Energy Sells 14.5 Megawatt Share in CA Geothermal Assets for $72.5 Million

Constellation Energy Sells 14.5 Megawatt Share in CA Geothermal Assets for .5 Million BALTIMORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG) today announced the sale of its interests in the Mammoth Geothermal Plant near Mammoth Lakes, CA to a subsidiary of Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:ORA) for .5 million (approximately ,000/kw). Constellation Energy and ORMAT shared a 50-50 interest in […]

Geothermal energy research – any going on in Cameroon?

Chevron ads say they want to be the world-leader in geothermal energy. So, are they, or anyone else, doing any research, etc, in Cameroon? There was an agreement in 2003 and 2006 over Bakassi Peninsula, but the enforcement that agreement seems to be falling apart. This may take some oil out of Cameroon’s energy portfolio […]

FAA puts $2.5M into geothermal plant at Portland Jetport

FAA puts $2.5M into geothermal plant at Portland Jetport Maine’s largest geothermal installation began this week at the Portland International Jetport, funded through a $2.5 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. Read more on Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology

St. Lucia A Hotbed for Geothermal Energy

St. Lucia A Hotbed for Geothermal Energy New company to the geothermal market, Qualibou Energy Inc put out a press release that announced its plans to develop as much as 170 MW of geothermal energy on St. Lucia in the Caribbean. Read more on Renewable Energy World

New Geothermal Technology will Increase Clean Energy Capacity

For centuries, people around the globe have used Earth’s heat: from relaxing hot springs baths to geothermal energy production for entire cities. But the resource has always been limited to areas with sufficient underground warmth. Now, as US officials encourage the development of clean-energy technologies, the industry is developing new, more efficient ways to capture […]