Geothermal Power News

Al Gore found his usual crowd when he walked into the middle of Davis-Kidd Booksellers on Sunday and started to talk about the need for action to slow global warming and climate change.

Federal officials are delaying what was to be the first auction of geothermal leases in Colorado to resolve questions about the increasingly popular form of renewable energy.

MANILA The Securities and Exchange Commission approved the plan of geothermal producer Energy Development Corp.

The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management is reportedly seeking policy clarity on the coverage of the election ban, as this may also affect the privatization program for the power industry with the bidding of some assets and contracts spilling over to next year.

Americans can be an impatient lot. They expect an economic recovery to return millions of lost jobs in a matter of months, they expect a war to end with the dropping of a single big bomb , and they reject alternative energy sources that can't compete with coal, gas and nuclear power plants immediately.

AUSTRALIA should not bank on being able to reduce its greenhouse emissions by storing carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants, US climate advocate Al Gore has said.

AL GORE, climate change campaigner and former US vice-president, wants to build "a green cathedral". By that he means he wants leaders and their communities to do what the communities in the Middle Ages did when they worked for generations to erect the great cathedrals of Europe.

The Philippine government aims to approve contracts to explore and develop the country's massive geothermal energy resources, which could attract over $2.5 billion in private investment, a department of energy official said.

Geothermal Systems can considerably reduce the carbon footprint of your home.

In a TTMA article titled, 'Renewable Energy Development and the Manufacturing Sector' published during September 2009 in Newsday's Business Day, we expressed the view that given the non-renewability of fossil fuels, that conditions need to be created in Trinidad and Tobago to spur the growth of renewable energy industries over the medium to long ...

Pre-empting a vote about whether to open part of the Army's Newport Chemical Depot to business development, a state board headed by Gov.

GE Energy Financial Services in a novel investment outside the United States loaned $50 million to an Indonesian power company for a geothermal energy plant.

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced up to $338 million in Recovery Act funding for the exploration and development of new geothermal fields and research into advanced geothermal technologies.

A Central Oregon geothermal project many years in the making continues to heat up following a recent announcement that nearly $30 million will go toward work near Newberry Crater.

Auckland, New Zealand, November 3, 2009 - World Energy Research has secured construction contracts and purchase power agreements for three new hydro electric projects in Guatemala.

Now here is an energy resource that we don't hear or talk enough about: geothermal.

Homeowners looking to go green and lower their utility bills can install a residential geothermal system The federal Investment Tax Credit was expanded and extended this year, allowing for 30 percent of the cost of a home renewable energy system to be deducted from your federal tax bill.

Amarillo College is digging deep to enhance its renewable energy program. The school has long planned to add to its wind classes, which have proven popular at both its East Campus in Amarillo and Moore County Campus in Dumas with more than 300 students enrolled.

Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. announced today it has been awarded two grants through the Department of Energy under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act Geothermal Technologies Program.

Soaking in outdoor hot tubs warmed by geothermal heat has been part of Icelandic life as much as drinking aquavit, so it comes as no surprise that Bank of Iceland, A slandsbanki, is focusing on geothermal development in the U.S. A slandsbanki's - Sustainable Energy' team provides development support by connecting industry and investors with the ...