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Las Vegas: September 29 through October 2 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (PRWEB) June 03, 2013 With installed geothermal capacity on track to surpass 12,000 MW globally by the end of the year in 25 countries, and over 60 countries reported to have projects in development, the GRC Annual Meeting & GEA Geothermal Energy Expo is expected to be an exciting international gathering of geothermal companies, academics, financiers, policy leaders, students, and other individuals. The international...
The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) has announced more details of events at the world’s largest annual geothermal conference at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to the main event of the GRC Annual Meeting & GEA Geothermal Energy Expo taking place September 29-October 2, 2013, there will be two workshops and two field trips before the conference and one field trip just after. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (PRWEB) May 23, 2013 The two pre-event geothermal workshops...
Louis Capuano III and Dennis J. Gilles join the new GRC Board of Directors. Davis, Calif. (PRWEB) January 17, 2013 The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) is governed by a Board of Directors, elected by the general membership to 2-year terms. To provide continuity, half of the Board is elected every year. All GRC members are eligible for election to the Board of Directors. The global GRC membership took part in the ballot in the late fall, and the result was that two new members of the...
Media are invited to lunchtime Hill event on March 27 DISCOVER magazine, the National Science Foundation, IEEE and ASME cordially invite you to attend a lunchtime panel discussion on March 27 to discuss geothermal energy as a part of America's energy supply. The honorary host for the event, "Road to the New Energy Economy: Geothermal Energy," is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Dan Lubar, government liaison for IEEE--the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers--moderates....
New research from SMU’s Geothermal Laboratory, funded by a grant from Google.org, documents significant geothermal resources across the United States capable of producing more than three million megawatts of green power – 10 times the installed capacity of coal power plants today. Sophisticated mapping produced from the research, viewable via Google Earth at www.google.org/egs, demonstrates that vast reserves of this green, renewable source of power generated from the Earth’s heat...
BEND, Ore., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Vulcan Power Company ("Vulcan"), a developer of geothermal energy projects, announced today that drilling has recommenced at the Company's Patua project site near Fernley, Nev., located in the northwestern part of the state. Earlier this month, the Company received a second equity investment of $108 million from Denham Capital. "Vulcan has assembled a team of some of the most experienced and knowledgeable professionals across the geothermal industry,"...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A significant amount of the risk associated with geothermal energy lies in uncertainties encountered in exploration and drilling, and a new report outlines the needs and opportunities for research to help address those problems and propel more geothermal energy production. The report, R&D Needs in Geothermal Exploration and Development, was prepared by Dan Jennejohn of the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), the leading US geothermal...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) shows strong growth in new geothermal power projects continuing through 2009. U.S. Geothermal Power Production and Development Update, September 2009 identifies 144 new geothermal projects under development in fourteen states that could represent as much as 7,100 MW of new baseload power capacity. When added to the 3,100 MW of existing capacity, 10 Gigawatts of geothermal power appears...
RENO, Nev., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), the geothermal industry's trade association is thrilled to be holding the Geothermal Energy Expo in tandem with the GRC's Annual Meeting, October 4th-7th. The Geothermal Energy Expo is the world's largest gathering of geothermal industry vendors exhibiting their projects, equipment, services and state of the art technology to the geothermal community. This year's Expo will host over 120 vendors. You...
