Tuesday, February 26, 2013

USA:

U.S. Geothermal Industry Sees Continued Steady Growth in 2012 (MRO - press release)

The U.S. Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) today released its 2013 Annual Industry Update (PDF), which found that installed geothermal capacity in the United States grew by 5%, or 147.05 MWe, since the last annual survey in March 2012. This increase in capacity is part of a larger trend of steady geothermal growth over the past decade, and can be attributed to seven geothermal projects that came online in 2012.

The GEA also revised its last year’s estimate of total installed capacity upward by 128 MWe, bringing current installed U.S. geothermal capacity to 3,386 MWe.

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