18 Feb 2014
2030 climate and energy framework: the Parliament calls for heat strategy
Parliament’s joint Environment (ENVI) and Energy (ITRE) Committee recognised on January the 9th the importance of heating and cooling in today’s vote on a 2030 framework for climate and energy policies. Heating and cooling represent over 45% of the final energy consumption in the European Union compared to 20% for electricity, 26% transport and 9% for ‘non-energy’ use (IEA, 2011) yet they remain largely neglected...
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28 Jan 2014
Geothermal energy debate – Para Todos La 2 (TV show)
Two beloved entities for GEOPLAT, members of our Steering Committee, participated in a didactic and interesant debate in the TV show “Para Todos La 2” in the Spanish public TV channel in order to disseminate geothermal energy, shallow and deep geothermal: Celestino García de la Noceda, Chief of Geothermal Research Projects of IGME (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España) and Ane Sainz-Trápaga Sisón, from the...
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24 Jan 2014
GEOPLAT will give a course about shallow geothermal energy and premiers its geothermal energy video in its Assembly 2014
On January 23, 2014, GEOPLAT celebrated its Annual Assembly. GEOPLAT will give a course about shallow geothermal energy and premiers its geothermal energy video. The documentation (agenda and presentations) is available in Spanish.
09 Dec 2013
(Español) Nuevo mapa de recursos geotérmicos de Extremadura y Alentejo
Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
29 Nov 2013
Indicators of Spanish R&D 2012: activity statistics + innovation in companies survey
The Spanish Observatory of R&D&i of the FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) has updated its web, ICONO, with the following indicators: Statistics about R&D Activities 2012 (published on 14 November 2013- in Spanish) Survey on Innovation in Companies 2012 (published on 27 November 2013 – in Spanish) Most of the indicators are available at national and region level. Using the map you can Access to the comparative and the evolution by region...
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29 Nov 2013
GEOPLAT Assembly 2012 – available documentation
On November 28, 2013, GEOPLAT celebrated its Annual Assembly: Technological opportunities for the Spanish geothermal sector at a national and international level and Official training in geothermal energy. The Assembly has been divided into two blocks, the first related to the technological opportunities that exist nationally and internationally for the Spanish geothermal sector. The second block of contents of the Assembly has been dedicated monographically...
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19 Nov 2013
EGS systems: the future of geothermal energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has recently posted an article which enphasizes the future of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). While the amount of conventional hydrothermal power worldwide has reached nearly 12 gigawatts, exponentially more geothermal resources can be accessed through next-generation technologies known as enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). Through funding by the Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO), USA first commercial-scale EGS was...
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13 Nov 2013
Horizon 2020: energy
Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe’s global competitiveness. Running from 2014 to 2020 with a budget of just over €70 billion, the EU’s new programme for research and innovation is part of the drive to create new growth and jobs in Europe. Horizon 2020 provides major simplification through a single set of rules. It...
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11 Nov 2013
PowEARTHful energy
The Canadian Geothermal Energy Association (CanGEA) recently launched their ‘powEARTHfu’ Energy campaign and they have already passed the halfway mark. This campign is the largest awareness raising effort anywhere in the history of geothermal power. The have been fortunate to have media assist thenm with getting the message out. Check out what The Globe and Mail had to say about geothermal opportunities in Canada. For everyone who has...
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02 Oct 2013
IDAE grants for geothermal energy in residential sector (dwelling and hotel)
In this link the “Resolution from 25 September 2013, of the State Secretariat of Energy, within which is publicated the one from 25 June 2013, of the Administration Council of the Spanish Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (Instituto para la Diversificación y Ahorro de la Energía, IDAE) , through which it is established the regulatory bases and call of the grant program for the energetic rehabilitation of existing buildings of the residential sector (dwelling and hotel use)” can...
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