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EDC celebrates 40th anniversary of Tongonan geothermal field, Philippines

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) recently celebrated the 40th year anniversary of the Tongonan geothermal power plant in the Leyte geothermal field of the Philippines. After several years of intensive exploration and development work, the Tongonan-1 geothermal power plant was inaugurated on July 02, 1983.

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'Like an Amazon pick-up package service': Inside plans to transform an Icelandic port into a CO2 storage hub for European pollution

Business Green

The firm also has a slightly leftfield plan to turn an industrial port in the south-east of the country into a large-scale CO2 terminal that would accept waste gas shipped from industrial and power plants across Europe and turn it into stone, storing it safely underground.

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Event - New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources

Green Market Oracle

the world, there are many power plants still use fossil fuels to boil water for steam. Geothermal power plants, using the steam, produced from reservoirs of hot water found a couple of miles or more below the Earth's surface. The steam rotates a turbine, than the turbine activates a generator, which produces electricity.in