Answer isn't blowing in the wind
THE untapped potential power of geothermal energy was driven home to me a few weeks ago as I stood watching the explosive force of the Old Faithful geyser at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
Click here for full storyOne of the best sources of green technology information and their impact on climate change is the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC). According to the NRDC “geothermal energy, which taps into reservoirs of steam and hot water beneath the earth's surface, is among the least explored sources of renewable energy in the United States.
Click here for full storySouth Australian premier says that news on the will to connect more green energy are good news for the state, as it already has attracted more than 90% of the country’s geothermal development.
Click here for full storyAustralian scientists claim just by harnessing one percent of the country’s untapped geothermal energy from underground could produce 26,000 years worth of clean electricity power. Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter and primarily uses coal power to generate nearly 77% of its electricity. But recently the government wants to invest in more renewable sources.
Click here for full storyNew figures published by the Victoria government in Australia show that the region has over ten times more geothermal potential than previously estimated.
Click here for full storyWith the troublesome mining tax settled, the Gillard government is working overtime on one of the greatest electoral challenges of its time: climate change. A new climate policy will be released in the coming weeks and it could be very new indeed. Forget the ETS: soon the talk will be about an "energy efficiency" scheme, and there's likely to be new plans for solar and geothermal energy.
Click here for full storyWhen it comes to geothermal energy, Australia may not hold the top spot in the utilization of this renewable energy, but the potential is certainly there.
Click here for full storyChina Petrochemical Corp, also known as Sinopec Group, has partnered an Iceland-based company to set up a new venture to further develop geothermal energy in China as it seeks to expand the renewable resource.
Click here for full storyNew solar and geothermal energy facilities are being built in Australia to provide sustainable energy for the region's Square Kilometer Array (SKA) bid.
Click here for full storyThe Australian government will spend 47.3 million Australian dollars ($39 million) to develop solar and geothermal energy technologies that will strengthen its bid to host the Square Kilometer Array (S.K.A.), the world’s largest radio telescope.
Click here for full storyWhen it comes to geothermal energy, Australia may not hold the top spot in the utilization of this renewable energy, but the potential is certainly there. As it has with other renewables, Australia has turned its attention to geothermal energy as a means to reach certain energy generation goals by the end of the year. These goals somewhat mirror the guidelines set by the Kyoto Protocol.
Click here for full storyWhen it comes to geothermal energy, Australia may not hold the top spot in the utilization of this renewable energy, but the potential is certainly there. As it has with other renewables, Australia has turned its attention to geothermal energy as a means to reach certain energy generation goals by the end of the year. These goals somewhat mirror the guidelines set by the Kyoto Protocol.
Click here for full storyGeothermal power is growing rapidly across the globe according to a new report by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA).
Click here for full storyGeoGlobal Energy LLC, a privately held investment and development company, said Thursday it will invest $90 million for the construction of the $400 million Hudson Ranch geothermal energy plant in California's Imperial Valley.
Click here for full storyAustralia's geothermal energy industry expects to get a boost from proposed changes to the country's tax laws that will allow the sector to write-off exploration costs.
Click here for full storyHas a cloud of steam ever generated as much excitement as the vaporised water that emerged from the Panax Geothermal’s Salamander well in South Australia last Thursday?
Click here for full storyA geothermal energy company has struck the environmentally friendly equivalent of oil in South Australia's southeast, in doing so putting the federal government on track to meet its promised green energy targets.
Click here for full storyIndia’s Tata Power has made big plans to generate electricity from geothermal energy in India and abroad and is eying projects to produce 1,500 mega watts, or a big chunk of Indonesia’s geothermal target of 9,500 mw, by 2025.
Click here for full storyIn a release by the company it is said that Australian “Greenpower Energy (ASX: GPP) has been awarded two geothermal exploration permits in the Esperance area of Western Australia.
Click here for full storyThe Western Australia state government has granted ten new exploration permits to companies looking to develop geothermal energy projects in Western Australia.
Click here for full storyFederal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has said the opening of a geothermal energy project in South Australia offered a “great opportunity” to develop renewable energy in Australia.
Click here for full storyThe federal government says its pledge to meet a renewable energy target of 20 per cent by 2020 is hinging on the success of geothermal energy.
Click here for full storyResources and Energy Minister, Martin Ferguson, today opened the Panax geothermal project near Penola. Panax successfully applied for $7 million under round one of the Federal Government’s $50 million Geothermal Drilling Program.
Click here for full storyGreen Rock Energy Limited (Green Rock) is geothermal energy company. The company is engaged in the exploration and development of geothermal energy projects in Australia and Europe. Its initial focus is on the evaluation and development of projects located at Olympic Dam, Perth Basin and Hungary.
Click here for full story The research was a joint collaboration between Baratunde Cola, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, and an international team of researchers from the U.S., Australia, China, India and the Philippines.
Cola, director of Georgia Tech’s NanoEngineered Systems and Transport Research Group (NEST), described the study as a breakthrough in efficiently harvesting electrical energy from various sources of exhaust or wasted heat.
Click here for full storyOrigin Energy Limited, an integrated energy company , has entered into a 50:50 joint venture agreement with Geodynamics Limited, a renewable energy company, to explore for shallow geothermal resources in the Eromanga Basin with a focus on developing renewable energy generation. Both the partners are based in Australia.
Click here for full storyThere is huge potential in many countries to use more geothermal energy. Particularly Australia, there are plans to create geothermal power plants in Australia.
Click here for full storyIn an article on the outlook for the energy sector in Australia, the author is looking into “One of the big question marks over new energy supply in 2010 is whether the geothermal sector can push on after winning its first real support from the federal government this year.”
Click here for full storyEarlier this month, a $60 million project to extract renewable energy from the hot bedrock deep beneath Basel, Switzerland, was shut down after a government study determined that earthquakes generated by the project were likely to do millions of dollars in damage each year, the New York Times reported. The project was first suspended in 2006 after it generated earthquakes that caused about $9 million in damage to other structures.
Click here for full storyGeothermal energy, has received a $35-million funding boost from the Australian government. According to federal resources and energy minister Martin Ferguson, the money would go towards five projects - two in Victoria and one each in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia.
Click here for full storyCapturing energy from the earth’s heat is pretty easy pickin’s for geologically-active areas of the world like Iceland, Indonesia, and Chile. In some locations, hot fluids are so near the earth’s surface that heat from naturally-occurring hot fluids can be directly circulated through buildings for heating. Iceland, in particular, takes advantage of this low-hanging energy fruit.
Click here for full storyGeothermal energy, the so-called ''hot rocks'' method of power generation, has received a Federal Government funding boost of $35 million.
Click here for full storyOur English-speaking friends in Australia and the United Kingdom are getting in on the geothermal energy craze. Let’s start with Australia first.
Click here for full storyThe Federal Government is increasing efforts to solve Australia's greenhouse problems by funding exploration of the nation's reserves of geothermal energy.
Click here for full storyVictoria's first geothermal power station could be operational within three years after the Brumby Government announced $25 million in funding for Greenearth Energy, which is assessing the potential for geothermal energy around Geelong.
Click here for full storyShares in Greenearth Energy (ASX:GER) have rocketed a massive 35% after the company was the recipient of a $25 million grant from the Victorian Government for its flagship Geelong Geothermal Power Project.
Click here for full storyThe British government recently made nearly £6 million or nearly ten million USD, available to finance investigation into natural underground energy sources. Deep Geothermal is a renewable form of energy that is gaining in popularity as an alternative source of power. It utilizes innate heat sources from deep within the earth to generate reliable electricity production and heat above ground.
Click here for full storyAustralian geothermal energy companies may seek merger partners during the next year because of funding needs, said Geodynamics Ltd. and Petratherm Ltd., two businesses seeking to produce power from underground heat.
Click here for full storyMinister Ferguson addressed industry leaders in Brisbane - Geoscience Australia advises me that if just 1% of Australia’s geothermal energy was extracted it would equate to 26,000 times Australia’s total annual energy consumption.
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