Geothermal Power News

Aside from promises of global cooperation, clean energy announcements emerged as the only tangible results from President Obama's meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday.

Nine Nevada counties are pressing Congress to repeal a provision in a federal appropriations bill that could cost counties in at least six Western states millions of dollars in lost revenues from geothermal activity.

Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was one of the high points not only of the environmental movement but also of the documentary tradition in America.

Stamford-based GE Energy Financial Services has made its first geothermal power investment outside the United States, loaning $50 million to Indonesia's biggest geothermal power producer, a 220-megawatt emissions-free plant set in a volcanic region of tea and quinine plantations.

Al Gore was on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien recently and was attempting to explain the utility of geothermal energy, which taps the Earth's heat to generate energy.

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A startling revelation from Al Gore , the distinguished climate scientist who has been so influential in driving our energy policy: People think about geothermal energy - when they think about it at all - in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause ...

Palm Springs already submitted a letter of intent to apply for the iHub program because the Coachella Valley is rich in renewable resources including wind, sun and geothermal energy, according to a city staff report.

THE Eden Project has revealed details about its plans for the UK's first geothermal energy plant.

Al Gore has made an enormous amount of money by pretending to know something about science.

While geothermal heating systems have been in use since the 1800's, rising and unpredictable energy costs and a desire to build environmentally friendly projects have their popularity on the rise.

Magma Energy Corp. says it is gradually acquiring shares in Iceland's largest private geothermal power company and eventually hopes to become half-owner of the venture.

Indie Energy Systems Company , LLC announced today that it has been awarded funding by the U.S. Department of Energy for the continued development of the Company's smart geothermal technologies for commercial and public buildings.

MORE than 1500 experts in geothermal energy are expected to descend on the south-west as part of an international congress to be held in Melbourne in 2015.

The one bright spot in the economy over the next four years is likely to be green.

Geothermal projects in Nevada received about one-third of the $338 million in grants under the economy recovery package, including projects in Gabbs, in northwestern Nye County, and in Silver Peak, Alum and Fish Lake Valley in Esmeralda County.

RICHARD BLACKWELL T he Toronto Stock Exchange, long a hub for financing mining firms and other resource companies, is carving out a substantial niche in the clean technology sector.

An Evanston-based geothermal energy firm operating in "stealth mode" for the last few years has won a $2.45-million Department of Energy grant to demonstrate its high-tech underground heat pumps.

The Toronto Stock Exchange is carving a niche in the growing clean technology and renewable power sector, raising more than $1-billion through equity listings in the year to October and attracting a growing list of international companies.

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