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ORIX starts operations of Minami-Kayabe geothermal power plant, Japan

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ORIX Corporation (ORIX) has announced the start of commercial operations of the Minami-Kayabe Geothermal Power Plant in the Minami-Kayabe region of Hakodate City in Hokkaido, Japan. MW, it is now the largest binary cycle geothermal power plant in Japan. With a capacity of 6.5

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Tauhara, NZ geothermal power station targets operations by Q3 2024

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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. Electricity from the power plant will be sold to Genesis Energy under a 15-year PPA.

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Arctic Green Energy and Sinopec to go global with joint venture

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Arctic Green Energy and Sinopec have announced that their joint venture, Sinopec Green Energy (SGE), is going global. The cooperation agreement was signed by Sigurdur Atli Jonsson, CEO of Arctic Green Energy, and Liu Shiliang, President of Sinopec Star, on behalf of the.

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Sihuangziping geothermal project in Taiwan breaks ground on 4-MW expansion

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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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EDC celebrates 40th anniversary of Tongonan geothermal field, Philippines

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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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The COP28 pledge to triple up by 2030 and implications for geothermal

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One of the biggest stories and most widely supported initiatives coming out of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (CO28) in Dubai, UAE is the pledge to triple the world’s installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. Global installed renewable electricity generation capacity in the 1.5°C

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Contact to produce food-grade CO2 from Ohaaki geothermal plant, NZ

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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. MW Te Huka Unit 3 geothermal power station.