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EDC set to put four geothermal power facilities online in 2024

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) is targeting to commence operations on four geothermal power plants before the end of 2024. The four planned projects are as follows: 29-MW Palayan Bayan binary power plant in Bicol 5.6-MW The four planned projects are as follows: 29-MW Palayan Bayan binary power plant in Bicol 5.6-MW

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Geothermal should be at a level playing field in permitting as oil and gas

ThinkGeoEnergy

Instead, geothermal projects go through several NEPA review stages. This makes it harder to invest on geothermal projects, as the certainty of the individual stages of development become subject to permitting decisions.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2021

Greentown Labs

Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. Fervo Energy is a next-generation geothermal power developer. Electricity.

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Canada’s geothermal energy opportunity

Renewable Energy World

Geothermal Energy Potential in Western Canada. There’s a wave of increased interest and investment in geothermal energy as a potentially viable source of renewable power. Geothermal energy is naturally occurring heat that exists within the interior of the Earth. By Renee J. From the Greek: ?? (gê),

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Enel Subsidiary to Close Coal Capacity in Spain

GreenTechMedia

In November last year, Spain’s government said its last coal and nuclear power plants would be closed by 2030. It also revealed tax breaks for natural gas that were not extended to coal. Last week Endesa added Enel Green Power CEO Antonio Cammisecra to its board of directors.

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Are California’s Renewable Generators at Risk From Preventative Blackouts?

GreenTechMedia

That’s either because they’re located in deserts or other low fire-risk areas, such as some of its solar farm PPA projects, or because their revenue structures rely more on capacity payments than on energy market revenues, such as the two natural gas-fired power plants it rates.

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The Fight to Define ‘Green Hydrogen’ Could Determine America’s Emissions Future

DeSmogBlog

But the hydrogen industry, oil companies like Chevron and BP that are investing in the technology, and even a few renewable energy groups argued otherwise. They would shut down investment in the industry, “effectively making it dead on arrival.” Current supplies are made by reforming natural gas, which releases greenhouse gasses.