IGA NEWS Newsletter of the International Geothermal Association Quarterly No. 109 1 IGA ACTIVITIES CONTENTS IGA ACTIVITIES Message from the Executive Message from the Executive Director... 1 Director 41st GRC Annual Meeting… 2 Greetings to all members of the IGA and to those that 2nd Annual General Assembly of GEMex Project… 3 are reading this newsletter. As mentioned in our MEXIREC 2017 and REN21 SC Meeting… 5 previous writing, the IGA Board has developed a new strategy which will help us to strengthen the role of our AFRICA members and the wider geothermal energy community Djibouti: Kuwaiti Grant for Geothermal Program… 7 not only for our sector, but also in the wider context of Ethiopia: Japanese Grant, and Geothermal Projects … 7 the ongoing renewable energy and climate change Kenya: Several Geothermal Notes… 9 debate. Tanzania: CIF to Fund the Ngozi Project: … 11 The IGA has been very busy over the past months to AMERICAS initiate strategic activities aligned with our four Pillars: Chile: Two Notes… 12 &13 Visibility, Authority, Independence and Costa Rica: Miravalles Renamed, Loan at Risk… 14 Membership. In this newsletter I focus on Pillar Ecuador: Exploration at the Chachimbiro Project … 15 Visibility: it is with great pride that I can show you our Honduras: First Geothermal Plant in Operation… 15 new logo and visual identity for the IGA (see the right Latin America: 8 Projects to Be Granted by GDF… 16 upper part of this page). We thank Team Visibility Mexico: Old Well Flows & Portable Plant… 17 (Andy Blair, Jane Brotheridge, Kristin Vala United States: Several Notes… 18 Matthiasdottir, and Bjarni Bjarnasson) for their great ASIA / PACIFIC RIM work and support. The designer, Hvita Husid, has done a fantastic job and we are all keen to take our new visual China: New Geothermal Fields, & HDR Project… 24 identity further and re-design our website before the UAE: First Geothermal Exploration Survey… 24 next Board Meeting in Santiago, Chile (27-29 November Indonesia: Sarulla Project & Other News… 25 2017). To increase our online visibility we have adopted Philippines: Geothermal Regulations & EDC… 27 #lovegeothermal, initiated a few social media campaigns Taiwan: New Feed-in Tariff for Renewables… 29 (see photo 1) to express our love for geothermal, and EUROPE once completed our new website will be hosted under Press Release: Efforts to Strengthen Geothermal… 29 www.lovegeothermal.org. To raise our profile and increase our offline Visibility, we have had a busy France-Germany: Soultz-sous-Forêts Reloaded… 30 summer with attending many events. In August, our Germany: New Power Plant, & Workshop… 31 president Alex Richter attended the 5th Indonesian Hungary: Turawell Project, Completed… 32 Geothermal Convention in Djakarta and the IRENA Iceland: Blue Lagoon, Theistareykir & Other… 32 workshop in El Salvador: “IRENA is our valued partner The Netherlands: ‘Ultra-deep’ Project in Almere... 34 to raise the Geothermal flag in the Renewable Energy Turkey: Direct Uses, Investments, & Kizildere III… 35 scene and I am grateful to be invited, as President of the UK: Lithium in Cornwall, & Projects in Scotland … 36 IGA, to promote IGA at these important fora”. OCEANIA In September, I was invited to be a panelist in the New Zealand: Three Notes … 37 Economic Forum in Poland together with Board OTHER Member Beata Kepinska (see photo 2) and present our Global: The ‘Florence Declaration’… 38 views on Geothermal Energy in Eastern European Climate Change: The East African Paradox… 39 countries. Luis Gutiérrez-Negrín represented IGA at the Climate Change: Dying Gods in Kenya… 40 MEXIREC event in Mexico (see separate note). Climate Change: Risk on US’ Crop Yields by 2050… 41 Together with the President and Secretary of the IGA Clean Energy: 100% Renewable Countries… 42 (Bruno Della Vedova) I attended the Global Science: Zealandia and Old Tectonic Plates… 43 & 44 Geothermal Alliance meeting in Florence, organized by Finances & Book Review…45 & 47 www.geothermal-energy.org October-December 2017 IGA News No. 109 2 Annual Meeting. Over 1,000 1 2 attendees gathered at the world’s largest annual geothermal energy event that included the GEA (Geothermal Energy Association) GeoExpo+, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 1-4, 2017. Utah Governor Gary Herbert addressed the Opening Session of the meeting on Monday, October 2. He was joined by other special guests and energy experts, like Jackie Biskupski, Mayor, Salt Lake City, Maria Richards, President of the GRC, Joe Greco, GEA Chairman, Susan G. Hamm, Director of the Geothermal Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy, John White, Executive Director of Center for Energy Efficiency & Renewable 3 4 Technologies, Kathleen IRENA (see photo 3). Margaret gave the openings Benedetto, Special Assistant to speech at the GeoHeat conference in Kamchatka the Secretary of the Interior, and Jon Cox, Vice (Russia), and Karolina and Gregor attended the EAGE President of Government Affairs of Rocky Mountain event in Malmö (Sweden) where both of them held Power. There was also a panel moderated by Laura interviews with key geothermal speakers (see photo 4) Nelson from the Utah’s Governor Office of Energy which will be channeled online. In Munich Karolina and Development, and panelists Nick Goodman (Cyrq me attended the German Geothermal Conference, Energy), Doug Glaspey (US Geothermal), Rahm where we launched our beautiful calendar 2018 showing Orenstein (Ormat Technologies Inc.), Rhonda Mills the winning photos of our IGA photo competition: our (Geothermal Energy Association), and a special speech 12 reasons to #lovegeothermal. by Joe Moore from the University of Utah’s Energy and Geoscience Institute and the GRC Annual Meeting The coming months will be intensive as well, as we will Chair. be completing the redesign of our website, gradually Joe Moore recalled that on 1847 a wagon train of starting to implement new technology for membership pioneers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake. management, and preparing the BoD meeting in From the back of his wagon, the Mormon leader Santiago, Chile. From a strategy perspective we will be Brigham Young, who was ill with mountain fever, focusing on Pillar Independence, in which governance looked out at the vast desert below and declared, “This and finances will play a key role. In November we will is the right place”. He added there is still a pioneering be present during COP23 in Bonn, Germany, at several spirit in the present Utah inhabitants to make the desert side events featuring our new slogan ‘cool the Earth – blossom and they have turned to renewable energy to stay hot with Geothermal’. I wish you happy reading achieve this. and do not hesitate to connect with me and share your reasons to love geothermal. Just over a year ago, Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, announced an initiative to transition the Dr. Marit Brommer, Executive Director, IGA – community to 100% renewable energy sources by 2032 [email protected] and to reduce carbon emissions citywide by 80% by 2040. Joe Moore stressed that the geothermal 41st GRC Annual Meeting community can help realize this goal, since three geothermal developers currently produce 73 MW of Luis C.A. Gutiérrez-Negrín, Editor geothermal electricity, and this is only a small percentage Geothermal Resources Council (GRC), the largest of the estimated 1300 MW of untapped potential in the national association affiliated to IGA, held its 41st state, enough to power a third of Utah. www.geothermal-energy.org October-December 2017 IGA News No. 109 3 The Opening Session attracted leading researchers, There was a field trip at the end of the congress, on academics, students, state and federal agency officials, Wednesday October 4, to see the southern Utah geology and executives from over 200 companies, such as & geothermal power plants in operation in the state, and CYRQ Energy, Coso Energy, ENEL Green Power, Ormat Technologies, Inc., U.S. Geothermal Inc., and others that develop, build, maintain and operate geothermal plants around America and the world. The GRC Annual Meeting featured over 70 hours of technical presentations, workshops, fieldtrips, a plenary session, and networking events. The GRC Technical Session programs covered a wide array of topics Opening session. Photo by GRC. pertaining to geothermal energy, with around 270 some other activities like the GRC Charity Golf papers were presented both oral and/or poster sessions, Tournament, GRC Ambassador Program Workshop, the highest number in the last decade. These papers GEA Board and Members Meeting, GRC Mixer (called highlighted geothermal developments and investigations A Night at the Museum), Lunch & GRC Awards, in more than 30 countries. GRC/GEA Networking Reception, GRC Membership On Friday and Saturday prior to the start of three full Meeting and GRC BoD Meeting, and a couple of days of technical sessions, meeting attendees activities organized by Women in Geothermal (WING participated in two workshops on Geothermal Resource Yoga Class and WING Fun Run). Decisions and Operations & Maintenance. It was announced the next Annual Meeting will be held The GEA GeoExpo+ featured exhibits by leading on 14-17 October 2018, in Reno, Nevada. companies who are paving the way for geothermal development through new projects, products, services, Second Annual General and technology. Over 70 exhibitors had the opportunity Assembly of GEMex Project to present their products and services. The exhibit hall was opened October 2 through October 4. Luis C.A. Gutiérrez-Negrín, Editor An International lunch and session provided the latest The Mexican and European consortia of the GEMex updates from abroad U.S. It included an Assessment of project met in Akureyri, Iceland, during the 1st and 2nd Mexico’s Geothermal Market by Francisco Flores- of October and held their second annual general Espino from the National Renewable Energy assembly, hosted by the Icelandic geological survey Laboratory, and a Global Geothermal Investment (ÍSOR)–one of the consortium partners.