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15 Mar 2024

Global Geothermal Impact Summit 2024 focuses on financing for the sector

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

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 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 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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19 Feb 2024

Transforming the energy future through geothermal energy

Transforming the energy future through geothermal energy

Margarita de Gregorio, Secretary General of GEOPLAT, analysed the situation of geothermal energy in Spain for Interempresas. “With an increasingly important presence in the energy mix, geothermal energy is emerging as an inexhaustible source of heat from the subsoil, destined to play a fundamental role in decarbonisation for a sustainable energy future“, she said. With regard to the main milestones that have marked the past...

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16 Feb 2024

GEOPLAT accompanies Minister Ribera at the announcement of the resolution of the aid for deep geothermal energy.

GEOPLAT accompanies Minister Ribera at the announcement of the resolution of the aid for deep geothermal energy.

GEOPLAT was present on Thursday 15 February at an event at the Government Delegation in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in which the Vice-President of the Government Teresa Ribera (head of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge) and Joan Groizard Payeras, Director General of the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE), announced the resolution of the ‘Deep Geothermal Energy Programme‘ aid...

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14 Feb 2024

GEOPLAT in RAC Dialogues: ‘Geothermal energy: a renewable, profitable and constant energy’.

GEOPLAT in RAC Dialogues: ‘Geothermal energy: a renewable, profitable and constant energy’.

The Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España (RAC) will bring the nature and characteristics of geothermal energy closer through a colloquium among accredited experts. The symposium will address the nature of geothermal energy, the conditions necessary for its use and the main scientific and technological challenges currently being worked on to improve knowledge and use of this resource. The current status and...

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09 Feb 2024

GEOPLAT at the International Energy and Environment Trade Fair GENERA 2024

GEOPLAT at the International Energy and Environment Trade Fair GENERA 2024

Margarita de Gregorio, coordinator of GEOPLAT, was a speaker at the conference entitled ‘The role of thermal renewables in the decarbonisation process‘ organised by IDAE on 8 February during GENERA 2024, the International Energy and Environment Fair held in Madrid. Representatives from different thermal renewable energy entities met there to review the situation of their respective sectors, their capacity for decarbonisation, and the impact of...

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05 Feb 2024

UPNA researchers generate electricity in Antarctica using geothermal heat

UPNA researchers generate electricity in Antarctica using geothermal heat

Researchers from the Public University of Navarra (UPNA), belonging to the Smart Cities Institute (ISC), have managed to generate electricity continuously in Antarctica using geothermal heat. The Thermal and Fluids Engineering team developed this innovative technology that makes it possible to harness the natural heat of the Earth’s interior to produce electricity. The project, known as ‘Autonomous Thermoelectric Generators for Volcanic Monitoring’ (VIVOTEG), was carried...

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24 Jan 2024

European Parliament backs resolution for a European geothermal energy strategy

European Parliament backs resolution for a European geothermal energy strategy

On 18 January, the plenary of the European Parliament voted in favour of a resolution to support a European geothermal energy strategy. Professor Krasnodebski, a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR), led the resolution, which was supported by 531 of the 553 MEPs present (96%), with 20 abstentions and 2 votes against. The resolution calls for: A European strategy for geothermal energy...

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