Nominations open for 2024 Ruggero Bertani Geothermal Innovation award
Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2024 (source: EGEC)
Carlo Cariaga
27 Nov 2023
Nominations are being accepted for the 2024 Ruggero Bertani Geothermal Innovation Award until 28 November 2023.
The European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC) has opened the nominations for the 2024 version of the Ruggero Bertani Geothermal Innovation Award. Nominations will be accepted until 28 November 2023 and can be submitted via this link.
The Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award is given to companies which have made an outstanding contribution towards the field of geothermal energy in the form of innovative products, scientific research or project initiatives. The competition is calling for European projects, processes, products, and initiatives from European companies, entities, or organisations across all value chain and geothermal applications, provided that they are located or have operations within Europe.
Jury of the year:
- Miklos Antics, EGEC President
- Luc Pockelé, RED, Vice-chairman geothermal panel RHC ETIP
- Fausto Batini, Magma Energy, ETIP-DG President, Italy
- Sandra Kircher, Head of Trade Fairs, Geotherm Expo&Congress, Germany
- Gerdi Breembroek, IWG President
- Kamila Izabella Piotrowska, EGEC Vice-president
- Jan-Diederik Van Wees, ETIP DG Vice-chairman
- Sara Montomoli, EGEC Ordinary Member of the Board
Timeline:
- Nominations open: 24/11/2023
- Closing nominations: 28/11/2023
- Announce the finalists: 3/02/2024
- Announce the winner: 29 February – 1 March 2024 – physical event, at GeoTHERM
The entry must cover a field application of a new concept or the development of an existing process or product to provide an innovative and sustainable approach, released within the previous year (01/01/2023 to 31/12/2023). Benefits, improvements, replicability, and reliability of the innovation should be clearly stated in the entry form and illustrated by a photo. The winner’s innovation becomes public domain. If research projects, to be qualified as innovation, nominees should have technology readiness level (TRL), as defined by the Horizon 2020 Work Programme, of 7 or higher.
The 2023 Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award was given to Huisman Geo for the innovative project Composite Downhole Tubulars or Huisman Composite Tubulars (HCT), a full composite downhole tubular system that the company launched in early 2022.
Source: EGEC
