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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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Setting the stage for Taiwan’s geothermal sector at the TIGC 2024

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The 2nd Taiwan International Geothermal Conference was held 20-21 February 2024 at the premises of the Taiwan CPC Corporation in Taipei, Taiwan. The Minister also stated Taiwan’s ambitious goals of building 20 MW of installed geothermal power capacity by 2025 and scaling this up to 200 MW by 2030 and 2 GW by 2040.