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OCTOBER 30, 2023

State-owned electricity company KenGen has reported a 48% growth in profit after tax for the year ending in June 2023. The profit growth has been attributed in large part to increased operation efficiency and capacity growth of the company’s geothermal facilities in Olkaria in Naivasha, Kenya. billion (approx.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Contact Energy has provided progress updates for the Tauhara geothermal power project in New Zealand, maintaining a target commercial operations date by winter (June to August) 2024. Through recent year, Contact Energy has provided several updates on the construction of the Tauhara geothermal power plant.

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MARCH 25, 2024

million) to renewable energy company BLD Power Stations for the Minami Tateishi geothermal power plant located in Beppu City in Oita Prefecture, Japan. This marks the first geothermal power generation project in Japan to receive funding from a Green Loan financial instrument.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

PT Barito Renewables Energy (BREN) through subsidiary Star Energy Geothermal is targeting for the completion and start of operations of the 15-MW Salak binary geothermal power plant by the end of 2023. Star Energy is currently conducting preliminary geothermal exploration surveys at these locations.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS) has been awarded the contract to supply steam turbines and generators for the geothermal power plant renovation of Units 1 through 3 at the old 45-MW Olkaria I geothermal power plant of KenGen in Kenya.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

A new binary geothermal power plant located in Mori-Machi in Hokkaido, Japan has started commercial operations as of 24 November 2023. The 2-MW MORI Binary Power Plant (MBP) is managed and operated by Mori Binary Power LLC, a joint venture organized by three Japanese companies – Hokkaido Electric Power Co.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Power company Mercury , along with representatives from Tauhara No. participated in a groundbreaking ceremony to signal the start of construction of the 50-MW geothermal power plant at the Nga Tamariki geothermal power station in New Zealand. 2 Trust , Ngati Tahu-Ngati Whaoa Runanga , and Ormat Technologies Inc.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

With this article, we are releasing our annual Top 10 Geothermal Countries based on Installed Power Generation Capacity as of year-end 2023. We evaluated our existing database of power plants, compared it with numbers released from operators, national authorities, international reporting and more.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

GA Drilling and ZeroGeo Energy GmbH (ZeroGeo) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in developing “ Projekt THERMO ,” a 12-MW Hot Dry Rock geothermal power plant in Lower Saxony, Germany. ZeroGeo has since signed high-impact partnerships with Sage Geosystems and Eden GeoPower.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Geothermal is a critical component of the Philippines’ ambitious plan to increase the share of renewable energy in the power generation mix to 35 percent by 2030 and 50 percent by 2040.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

.” “With the inauguration of the Lao-Lao Geopark, it is emphasized that geothermal is not only a green industry that coexists in harmony with the environment, but can also be a driver of the country’s tourism industry,” said Julfi Hadi, President Director of PGEO.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MENR) has prepared the “Draft Regulation on the Technical Evaluation of Electricity Generation Applications Based on Geothermal Energy” and opened it for public comments. The draft regulation will be open until September 8, 2023.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Beijing, China, will be hosting one of the most significant events in the geothermal community, the World Geothermal Congress 2023 (WGC 2023), between 15-17 September. The results from the field application of this concept in different technologies of geothermal power generation will be introduced in several cases.

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APRIL 3, 2024

The Hokkaido Electric Power Company (HEPCO) with Obayashi Corporation have announced the start of an exploration campaign for geothermal power generation in the village of Rusutsu in Hokkaido, Japan near the southern foot of Mt. Shiribetsu.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Editor’s note: The Sihuangziping geothermal power project is also referred to in other sources as the Liuhuangziping geothermal power project. A groundbreaking ceremony for the 4-MW Sihuangziping geothermal power plant Jinshan, New Taipei City in Taiwan was held on the 20th of November 2023.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Colombian state-owned petroleum company Ecopetrol has announced that it will now invest on drilling for the planned geothermal power generation project in Caldas, Colombia. The signing of the memorandum of understanding between the three parties took place in March 2023.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

Editor’s note: The Sihuangziping geothermal power project is also referred to in other sources as the Liuhangziping geothermal power project. There are also plans to proceed with the construction of a second geothermal power plant to bring the installed capacity in Sihuangziping up to 40 MW.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The planned 35-MW geothermal power project will be the first geothermal plant of Globeleq, one of three Independent Power Producers (IPPs) assigned to build power plants to utilize the geothermal resources in Menengai.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Registration is currently open for GeothermiX , the first transdisciplinary conference about geothermal energy organized by PhD students. The event will be held in the University of Pisa in Italy from November 29 to December 1, 2023. The registration period closes on 30 September 2023. Registration for GeothermiX remains free.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Registration is currently open for a webinar on the topic of social acceptance and understanding of geothermal energy. This is a part of the 2023 Northern Ireland Geothermal Webinar Series organized by the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland. Title: “Why Geothermal?

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MARCH 18, 2024

The group of IGCP636 member researchers organized its Annual Meeting in October 2023, in accordance with the guidelines of the UNESCO International Geosciences Program (IGCP). The general objective of the 2023 Annual Meeting was to visit several places of geological and geothermal interest in Portugal.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

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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APRIL 11, 2024

The Vogtlandkreis is aspiring to be the first district in the State of Saxony to establish a geothermal power facility somewhere between Bösenbrunn, Schönbrunn, and Planschwitz. Plans for the geothermal project were first announced in July 2023 , with the corresponding contracts awarded after about a month.

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APRIL 5, 2024

(GreenFire) has announced that it has received approval from KenGen to commence the implementation of the company’s proprietary GreenLoop® technology in a geothermal well in the Olkaria geothermal field in Kenya. KenGen has played a major role in making Kenya one of the Top 10 largest geothermal power producers in the world.

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APRIL 16, 2024

The construction of the 50-kW geothermal pilot plant started in early 2023. The plan was to utilize an existing non-productive gas well, Pg-8, to produce geothermal power. However, constant operation is not possible yet as parts of the system, particularly the turbine, needs to be modified.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The 7th World Geothermal Congress (WGC2023), hosted by China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) under the theme of “Clean Geothermal, Green Earth,” kicks off at China National Convention Center in Beijing. It is China’s first time hosting the international geothermal event of this kind.

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APRIL 24, 2024

This will be developed in conjunction with DEEP’s pioneering geothermal power facility in Saskatchewan, Canada. DEEP is set to develop Canada’s first-ever geothermal power facility at Saskatchewan’s U.S. According to an update announced by the developer in mid-2023 , the project will be executed in two phases.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Heber Diez went on to say that the investment requirement of geothermal represents a slight fraction of what is spent for the oil industry. The AGM President emphasized that the exploration and deployment of geothermal power technologies may be expensive at the onset, but these are compensated enough when the facilities are operational.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

(“Taiteck”), has won the tender for the GreenFire’s GreenLoop technology feasibility study project from CPC Corporation, Taiwan (“CPC”) on June 14, 2023. The commencement date of the project was on June 26, 2023. The tender requested the design of tests, testing of geothermal wells, and retrofit of wells using the GreenLoop technology.

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APRIL 30, 2024

The technology can generate power from low-quality heat sources, providing opportunities to increase the overall efficiency of geothermal power plants. Source: Kontan The post Pertamina harnessing innovative technologies to optimize geothermal operations first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

State-owned Ethiopian Electric Power company reports that drilling and testing of 6 of the planned 10 wells to be drilled at the Aluto Langano geothermal project has been concluded. While Aluto Langano is the site of a previously operating geothermal power plant, it has though not been producing for many years.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) recently celebrated the 40th year anniversary of the Palinpinon-1 geothermal power facility located in the island of Negros in the Philippines.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Contact Energy (Contact) has developed a way to capture the small amount of naturally occurring carbon dioxide released during geothermal power generation at the Ohaaki geothermal site near Taupo, New Zealand. The deadline for Ohaaki Food Grade CO2 production RFP submissions will be on 6 December 2023.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

The critical deciding factor will be the result of a “heat check” or geothermal assessment being conducted by PT Ormat Geothermal Indonesia at the Toka Tindung gold mining concession area located in North Minahasa, North Sulawesi. The results of this assessment is expected by the middle of September 2023.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The first geothermal power plant in Menengai officially started supplying power to the grid in August 2023. Construction is expected to start soon for the second power plant following the financial close of the project. Source: Republic of Kenya and Kenyans.co.ke

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MAY 3, 2024

In mid 2023, Eastland Generation announced a strategic capital raise to help fund the expansion of its renewable generation portfolio in New Zealand. Before the end of 2023, Eastland Generation announced a successful capital raise round by the sale of the company’s 50% interest to Obayashi.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Drilling for the project started back in January 2023 , initially targeting a depth of 3500 meters. This was reached in May 2023, but well testing indicated that the flowrate of the well did not support commercial operations although the temperature was sufficiently high at 125 °C.

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