Geothermal News for April 2009

Geothermal News Archive

Solar and geothermal cheaper than coal and nuclear by 2025 Solar and geothermal cheaper than coal and nuclear by 2025

Coal and nuclear power could cost 30% more per year by 2025 than energy from concentrating solar and hot dry rock geothermal power, according to DESERTEC-Australia.

Intel tops list of USA green power purchasers

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a list of the USA’s top green power purchasers.

Renewable Energy Focus to twitter

Renewable Energy Focus has now joined the twitter network...

Petratherm and Dalkia cooperate on Spanish geothermal

Geothermal energy company Petratherm has signed an exclusivity agreement with energy services provider Dalkia to assess the joint venture (JV) potential of its Geo-Madrid Geothermal District Heating project in Spain.

Electricity from renewables rise 11.7% in UK

Electricity supply from renewable energies including wind and hydro in the UK rose by 11.7%, or 2.2 TWh, to 20.7 TWh in 2008.

Global geothermal pipeline exceeds 9 GW

The global geothermal pipeline now exceeds 9 MW of projects under development, which if completed could almost double the installed global geothermal capacity of 10.5 GW built up over the past 30 years.