7:00 am - 8:00 am
- Registration Opens, Complimentary Breakfast, and Networking
- Opening Remarks and Keynote
- Opening Remarks: Jack Hand, President and CEO, POWER Engineers, Inc.
- Jonathan Weisgall, Vice President Government Relations, Berkshire Hathaway Energy
- Opening Keynote: Sakari Oksanen, Deputy Director-General, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
8:30 am - 9:30 am
- State of Geothermal Industry in the U.S. and Internationally
- Geothermal Industry Advancements Panel
- Geothermal Resource Reporting Metric (GRRM): Building Blocks for Successful Geothermal Energy Projects
- Keys to Financing Geothermal Projects
- Financing Opportunities Available in Geothermal
- Debt Capital Markets and Layered Financing, Private Sector Investment in the Global Geothermal Market
- The Role of Insurance in Geothermal Resource Development
- Financing U.S. Geothermal Technology and Services Exports
- The Role of JICA in Geothermal Development, Focus on Africa, Latin America, and Asia
- The Role of Public Finance in Deploying Geothermal, Focus on East Africa and Central America
- The Rise of Geothermal in the African Rift Valley
- Developments in Africa Overview
- The Rise and Future of Geothermal Development in Kenya
- Ethiopia's Geothermal Power Industry, Current Status and Future Prospects
- Environmental Review: Meeting Kenya, Djibouti, World Bank, and AfDB Requirements
- Luncheon Keynote: The Honorable Senator Dean Heller , U.S. Senator of Nevada
- Expanding Geothermal Developments in Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific
- Development in Europe, Asia and the S. Pacific
- Enabling Factors that are Driving Geothermal Development, Focus on Turkey
- Potential for Additional Generation from Current Geothermal Power Projects, Focus on Indonesia
- Geothermal Development in the Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Focus on PacGeo 6
- Development of Feasible Low Enthalpy and Small Scale Geothermal Plants: Technology and Business Cases, Focus on Europe
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Geothermal Growth in Mexico, the Americas, & the Caribbean
- Growth in Mexico, the Americas, & the Caribbean
- El Ceibillo Project, Focus on Guatemala
- Speeding up Geothermal Development with Decentralized and Small Unit Plants, Focus on the Caribbean
- Social Responsibility: Comparative Analysis from Geothermal, Mining and Hydroelectric Projects in Latin America, Focus on Colombia
- Country Focus on Mexico
- How one Utility will Eliminate CO2 Emissions, Cut Energy Prices by 50% & Increase Cyber Security, Focus on Nevis
- New Technology Developments & Future Prospect
- The GTO Portfolio: A Focus on EGS through FORGE's Initiative and GTO's Broad Subsurface Engineering Initiative, SubTER
- Future Technology Panel Moderation: Steve Ponder, Executive Director, Geothermal Resources Council (GRC)
- Replacing Coal-Fired Power Generation with Geothermal Enegy Using Advanced EGS Technology: The Use of Waste Water from Coal Plants and Other Sources in the EGS System, Focus on the Eastern U.S., Hungary, and East Africa
- Water Purification Driven by Geothermal Heat, a Novel Treatment Process under Development and Supported by DOE
- Mineral Recovery
- Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS): Creating New Geothermal Opportunity in High Temperature, Low Permeability Rock Formations
- Concluding Remarks
