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• Geothermal Energy Could End Power Crisis - World Bank
  Apr 22, 2008 - Rwanda News - All Africa Global Media
  
  Rwanda should seriously consider exploration of geothermal resources because available data indicates significant potential that could solve the energy crisis and electrify the whole country, according to a new World Bank study.
  
  
• Turkey's Geothermal Potential Enough to Meet 14 Pct of Energy Need
  Jan 17, 2008 - Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
  
  Turkey's geothermal potential can easily meet 14 percent of Turkey's heating and electricity need, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Wednesday.
  
  
• Idaho's First Geothermal Power Plant is Now Online
  Jan 9, 2008 - EERE Network News
  
  U.S. Geothermal Inc. achieved commercial operation last week at its new geothermal power plant in Raft River, Idaho, making it the first commercial geothermal power plant in the state. Ormat Nevada built the power plant, which began producing power during a test phase in late October 2007. After some mechanical tweaks, the plant was restarted on November 22, 2007, and has continued to produce power since then. As a result, Idaho Power Company declared that commercial power operations began on January 3. So far, the plant output is around 9 megawatts, but the company expects the plant to achieve an average annual net power output of 13 megawatts. The company currently has a contract to sell Idaho Power Company up to 10 megawatts of geothermal power, but is in the process of trying to renegotiate that contract for the full output of the geothermal power plant.
  
  
• Iran to open geothermal power plant in 2009
  Dec 18, 2007 - BBC Monitoring
  
  The head of the country's new energies [institution] has said that the construction project of the geothermal power plant in Meshkinshahr would be completed by the end of next year [21 March 2009].
  
  
• Leading Energy Company of India to Establish Geothermal Energy in India and Nepal
  Nov 27, 2007 - Market Wire
  
  Glitnir, the Nordic corporate investment bank, and LNJ Bhilwara Group with operations in India and Nepal has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate in developing geothermal power plants in India and Nepal. This MoU has been signed during the visit of the Finance Minister of Iceland on invitation from Finance Minister of India. The finance minister of Iceland H.E. Arni Mathiesen is on an official visit with a business delegation focused on Energy development in India.
  
  
• Nevada Geothermal Announces Large Generation Interconnection Agreement Signed With Sierra Pacific Power Company for Up to 75 MW
  Nov 19, 2007 - MarketWire
  
  Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. (NGP) (TSX VENTURE: NGP)(OTCBB: NGLPF) today announced that the Company has executed a Large Generator Interconnection Agreement (LGIA) with Sierra Pacific Power Company (SPPC). The LGIA covers up to 75 MW of new electric generation in two phases from the Blue Mountain Geothermal resource. The Agreement was the culmination of SPPC engineering studies which determined that interconnection to SPPC's electrical transmission grid was feasible and subsequent contract negotiations with NGP. The LGIA costs and schedule are in line with NGP's plans for the Blue Mountain Project and allows NGP to continue with development of Phase I and planning of Phase II power projects.
  
  
• Iceland Co to invest US$2 BLN in Indonesian Geothermal project
  Oct 24, 2007 - AsiaPulse
  
  Reykjavik Energy Invest (REI) will team up with Indonesian state oil and gas company PT Pertamina to build a 500-megawatt geothermal power plant with an investment of US$2 billion in Indonesia.
  
  
• Chevron expands geothermal operations in Indonesia
  Aug 13, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia: Chevron Corp., the only foreign business currently developing geothermal energy in Indonesia, is expanding operations at one of its power plants on Java island to bring electricity to an additional 700,000 homes, the company said Tuesday.
  
  
• Cost for geothermal, other renewable energies
  August 4, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  Hot rock heat mining could provide energy at competitive prices, according to a recent study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  
  
• Ethiopia's geothermal project comes up with encouraging results
  Jul 23, 2007 -- Xinhua
  
  A geothermal project built in Dubti and Tendaho areas of north Ethiopia's Afar State, has come up with encouraging results, the Ministry of Mines and Energy said Monday.
  
  
• Iceland: Foreign Engineers Become Geothermal Energy Experts
  Jun 20, 2007, 2007 - IPS/GIN
  
  REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Icelandic leaders say they are eager to teach the rest of the world a trick they discovered years ago: a strategy for harvesting geothermal energy from hot rocks beneath the earth's surface.
  
  
• International Community Embraces Geothermal Energy
  May 11, 2007 - renewableenergyaccess.com
  
  Update from GEA assesses progress in geothermal development since 2005. A 2007 interim report from the U.S. Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) estimates that total geothermal capacity online could increase more than 55 percent worldwide, from 8661 megawatts (MW) in 2000 to 13,500 MW or more in 2010.
  
  http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/infocus/story?id=48464
  
  
• Geodynamics to bring hot rock power to Australian grid by 2010
  Apr 13, 2007 Datamonitor
  
  Australian company Geodynamics, which is engaged in exploring hot fractured rock geothermal energy, has reviewed its resource position and has accordingly brought forward its plans to deliver its first power from hot rocks onto the Australian power grid.
  
  
• California Edison Expands Renewable Energy Partnership with Calpine
  Apr 13, 2007 The Associated Press
  
  Southern California Edison (SCE), the nation's leading purchaser of renewable energy, has reached agreement with renewable energy generator Calpine to purchase 225 megawatt (MW) of geothermal energy, enough electricity to power 130,000 average homes. The generation would come from Calpine's Geysers facilities in California's Sonoma and Lake counties.
  
  
• Study: Geothermal energy could meet large part of U.S. power need
  Jan 23, 2007 The Associated Press
  
  The nation could generate a large part of the electricity it will need in the future by tapping the enormous amounts of heat energy locked up in hard rock below the earth's surface, a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology-led study indicated Monday.
  
  
• Billion-dollar geothermal power plan
  Dec 1, 2006 Dominion Post
  
  State power firm Mighty River Power (in New Zealand) has announced plans to develop more than $1 billion of geothermal power plants in the next 10 years.
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3882961a13,00.html
  
  
• Geothermal Energy to Play Vital Role in New Zealand's Future
  November 30, 2006 Kawerau, New Zealand [RenewableEnergyAccess.com]
  
  Construction on a 90-megawatt (MW), $275 million geothermal power plant in New Zealand is finally underway this week after four years of cumulative planning. The new power station, located in Kawerau in the eastern Bay of Plenty, will be the largest geothermal power development in New Zealand in over 20 years -- and is expected to produce more energy annually than all of the country's existing wind turbines, said Mighty River Power Chief Executive Doug Heffernan.
  
  http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=46701&src=rss
  
  
• Geothermal prospectors seek energy in Idaho, the West
  Nov 25, 2006 John Miller, AP
  
  Barnes now returns to the geothermal area daily - not to roast pinions, but as a roughneck on a drilling crew boring 6,000 feet into the earth. Come next October, his employer, U.S. Geothermal, expects to begin producing electricity from a hot-water-fired power plant. Utility Idaho Power Co. has agreed to buy enough electricity to light 7,500 homes.
  
  http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/11/26/news/business/60-energy.txt
  

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