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MAY 2, 2024

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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ThinkGeoEnergy

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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ThinkGeoEnergy

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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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Sinopec Green Energy shareholders during the World Geothermal Congress 2023 in Beijing, China. With 18 years of successful operation in China, Sinopec Green Energy has emerged as the global leader in geothermal heating and cooling, serving over 70 cities and municipalities across 7 of the 9 Northern Chinese provinces.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

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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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Beyond the 16 GW of installed geothermal power capacity as of the end of 2022, there is currently also about 173 GW of installed geothermal heating capacity according to a recent “Facts for Future” webinar episode by the International Geothermal Association (IGA).

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The recording of the first webinar “ Navigating Geothermal Data on the Road to COP28,” can be accessed via this link. For geothermal this means, tripling the installed geothermal power generation capacity of 16 GW to 48 GW by the end of 2030.

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