The February issue of the EGEC Newsletter is now available. Click here to download it.
In this issue:
- Exergy S.p.A won the 2016 European Geothermal Innovation Award
- Successful KnowRES employment workshop at Offenburg
- EGC 2016: some 150 oral presentations and almost 200 posters are expected
Policy Updates
- EGEC recommendations for a Renewable Energy Directive post-2020
- EU Commission unveils its first ‘EU Strategy on Heating and Cooling‘
- Commission Delegated Regulation sets default values for “high-efficient cogeneration”
News
- ENEL Green Power generates 18% of its power from geothermal
- Turboden connects 5.5 MWe Traunreut plant to the Grid in Germany
- IF Technology to explore low temperature geothermal power production in the Netherlands
- UK government offers c.13.4 million EUR in funding for low carbon Energy Projects in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
- License granted in the Puy-de-Dôme (France) for Fonroche/ Electerre de France
- Call for proposal Heating Funds 2016 for French regions
- Landisvirkjun and Icelandic Drilling Company (IDC) reach agreement for 10 new wells
- EBRD celebrates the best geothermal projects in Turkey
- Progress for new heating project in Espoo, Finland
- Pump Tests expected for new District Heating System in Freiham, near Munich, Germany
- Scope for cost reduction of GSPH in a mass market
- Poster competition at Geothermal Association of Ireland 2016 Conference
- Indonesia to relax rules on power ownership by foreign companies
- The Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility policy maker and donor collaboration meetings, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 3-5th may
- The IGA Secretariat to remain in Bochum, Germany until December 2018
- European Geothermal Innovation award 2016 given to Exergy
