16 Apr 2024
IDAE to have 100 million to invest in energy transition projects
The Instituto para la Diversificación y Ahorro de la Energía (IDAE), which reports to the Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico, seeks public-private collaboration initiatives linked to the transformation of the energy system in which it can participate by acquiring equity capital. It has activated an endowment of 100 million euros to invest as a minority partner in emerging business projects involving...
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12 Apr 2024
ICGC participates in European project to better assess potential geothermal resources
The Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC), a member of GEOPLAT, will be part of the consortium of the Horizon Europe project GO-Forward, which aims to increase the accuracy of the methods traditionally used to assess the potential of deep geothermal reservoirs in a given area. This new methodology is based on a detailed characterisation of the geological processes leading to the formation of...
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10 Apr 2024
Save the date: GEOPLAT Assembly (8 May, 11 a.m.)
Next 8th May, the GEOPLAT General Assembly will take place at the IDAE headquarters. We have a lot to tell you! We will present the evolution of the Platform and review the main milestones of the sector in the last year. REGISTRATION: open to GEOPLAT members and interested professionals (limited capacity, places will be allocated in order of registration. Possibility of online participation).
08 Apr 2024
(Español) EGRISE, el motor europeo de búsqueda de documentos de I+D sobre geotermia
The European Geothermal R&D Document Search Engine(EGRISE) is a tool created by ETIP-Geothermal for the collection, organisation and sharing of data. EGRISE offers more than 10,000 research resources produced in geothermal projects funded by the European Union and the rest of the geothermal community worldwide (project results, documentation, data, etc.) and compiled in an organised catalogue using the ZENODO data repository. The documents can be...
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01 Apr 2024
GEOPLAT participates in the Kick-Off Meeting of the European project ThermEcoWat
GEOPLAT participated on 26th and 27th March in Lyon (France) in the Kick-Off Meeting of the European project ThermEcoWat, as part of the Communication and Dissemination team. The consortium of this project is led by Auvergne Thermale and, in addition to GEOPLAT, is formed by BRGM, Ajuntament de Caldes de Montbui, Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC), Deputacion de Ourense, Termalistur – Termas de...
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26 Mar 2024
Google, Microsoft and Nucor to join forces to accelerate geothermal energy projects
The increasing development and use of artificial intelligence-based solutions is increasing the electricity demand of major technology giants, prompting them to look for renewable energy sources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions due to this growth. Google and Microsoft have announced a partnership to purchase electricity generated from geothermal and other energy sources. These multinationals have also been joined by US steel producer Nucor. The companies...
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15 Mar 2024
Global Geothermal Impact Summit 2024 focuses on financing for the sector
The International Geothermal Association (IGA) is organising the Global Geothermal Impact Summit 2024 (GGIS2024), a ground-breaking event dedicated to a crucial, yet often overlooked, aspect of geothermal energy: its financing. This summit, to be held on 23-24 April 2024 at the Fokker Terminal in The Hague, the Netherlands, is designed to bring together financial ingenuity and energy sustainability, paving the way for a global geothermal...
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06 Mar 2024
Soziable interview with Margarita de Gregorio on the role of geothermal energy in decarbonisation
Margarita de Gregorio, secretary general of GEOPLAT, analyses in an interview for Soziable the possibilities of geothermal energy and the role it can play in the coming years in the energy transition. She points out that geothermal energy “has the capacity to decarbonise both by providing thermal energy in the form of heat and cold, as well as electrical energy. With the particularity that the...
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01 Mar 2024
Geothermal energy will be one of the stars of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Geothermal energy will be very present at the next Olympic Games in Paris 2024, since, as announced by French President Emmanuel Macron, the Olympic Village is committed to energy efficiency thanks to the use of insulating materials and geothermal energy. It is not only the largest construction site for the Paris Games, but also the largest construction site in Europe in recent years, and it...
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23 Feb 2024
GEOPLAT participates in RAC Dialogues on Geothermal Energy
GEOPLAT, represented by Celestino García de la Noceda, from the Platform’s Steering Group, participated in the colloquium ‘Geothermal energy: a renewable, profitable and constant energy‘, organised on 21 February by the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España (RAC), in collaboration with the Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME) and the Sociedad Geológica de España. Celestino explained what geothermal energy is...
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