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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19 Feb 2024
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 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’.
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
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
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
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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22 Jan 2024
The IDAE grants subsidies for projects to harness geothermal energy on La Palma
The IDAE grants aid for projects to harness geothermal energy on La PalmaThe Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE) has published the resolution for the award of 53 million in aid for six feasibility studies for projects to harness geothermal energy on La Palma. Among the main proposed beneficiaries are public and private companies such as Repsol, Sodepal, Canopalma or Energía Bonita, which, once...
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15 Jan 2024
Margarita de Gregorio: “The interesting thing about geothermal energy is that it can always be available to produce electricity, it is manageable”.
Recently, the Instituto para la Diversificación y Ahorro de la Energía (IDAE) awarded 120 million euros from the Next Generation funds to 14 projects to explore the potential of deep geothermal energy in Spain. La Razón has published a report on the potential of geothermal energy in Spain. Margarita de Gregorio, coordinator of Geoplat, explained to this media that “within geothermal energy there are two...
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12 Jan 2024
Webinar on the call for public-private collaboration projects 2023 (exclusive for GEOPLAT partners)
On 19 January 2024, at 10 h, GEOPLAT, in collaboration with the Agencia Estatal de Investigación, is organising a webinar to present the main aspects of the call for public-private collaboration projects 2023. This call of the State Plan for Scientific, Technical and Innovation Research 2021-2023 was published on 29 December, and is scheduled to open on 30 January 2024. The objective of the grants...
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