Friday, January 29, 2016

Europe: Geothermal News from EGEC

The EGEC Newsletter January 2016 - The Voice of Geothermal in Europe

The December issue of the EGEC Newsletter is now available. Click here to download it.

In this issue:

Editorial
  • The European Commission to unveil its Security and Supply Package
  • The revision of the Energy and Climate Framework
Policy Updates
  • Revision of the Energy Efficiency Directive, EGEC responds to European Commission’s consultation
  • RES Directive revision: The last few days to shape the most important piece of EU legislation for Geothermal
News
  • ENEL Green Power enters German market
  • Turboden expands into the Asian Geothermal Market
  • New Heat Project Developing in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France
  • New Video explaining the geothermal drilling process
  • Geothermal Heating System for Paris Le Bourget airport
  • PLUTO initiative: 125 million USD to support 60MW new geothermal capacity in Turkey
  • Zorlu Enerji secures feed in tariff of 0.11 2 USd/KWh for Kızıldere II and Alaşehir I plants
  • Second production well complete at Kocaköy, Turkey
  • EIB announces support for Theistareykir geothermal plant
  • Iceland deep drilling project partners awarded funding under Horizon 2020 for ‘DEEPEGS’
  • Call for abstracts: 6th African Rift Geothermal Conference
  • 2 Surface studies and 5 drilling programmes accepted for Geothermal Risk Mitigation Fund, next application period to open in May
  • European Geothermal Market Report to be released in February