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For the past 15 years, Vietnam has enjoyed enviable gross domestic product increases, averaging 7% annually. That kind of economic growth increases power demand, but financing new capacity remains a challenge. Reaching its ambitious capacity growth goals will require Vietnam to expand its financing and vendor base, attract foreign investment, and ensure future fuel supplies in a region thick with competition for those resources….
POWER Magazine :: Geothermal power projects, technologies, and potential

Of the $ 35.9 billion in loan guarantees awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) since 2009, roughly $ 26.5 billion have financed nuclear and renewable power projects across the nation through the Section 1703 and 1705 loan guarantee programs….
POWER Magazine :: Geothermal power projects, technologies, and potential

The technologies used to generate and distribute electricity will be radically transformed during the coming decade. Amid that change, the power industry must continue to meet customer reliability, safety, and cost-of-service expectations. Achieving the right balance among these often-conflicting goals is the primary focus of every utility. The Electric Power Research Institute is helping utilities achieve that balance with R&D programs for many new and emerging technologies….
POWER Magazine :: Geothermal power projects, technologies, and potential

Geothermal power and conventional fossil fuel–powered technologies have similar power production cycles, and both generation types can be dispatched. Geothermal power’s primary advantage is its renewable fuel. Its primary disadvantage is that its fuel requires large investments over many years to characterize uncertain sources. Enhanced recovery techniques that use fracking may be the future of this renewable resource….
POWER Magazine :: Geothermal power projects, technologies, and potential

Acoustic pulse reflectometry (APR) is a tube inspection method that has been gradually gaining acceptance as a tool for heat exchanger inspection. Different types of heat exchangers operating in different operating environments have different failure mechanisms, making some of them more suited than others for inspection by APR. Finned tube heat exchangers are a typical example of heat exchangers particularly conducive to APR inspection….
POWER Magazine :: Geothermal power projects, technologies, and potential

$ 1 million geothermal energy grant offered Anchorage Daily News The initial goal was to determine whether the power plant at the University of Alaska Fairbanks could be replaced with a geothermal energy plant, … and more »

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Calpine signs agreement to sell 25% undivided interest in Freestone Energy Trading Markets (press release) Calpine Corporation, a natural gas and geothermal energy provider, has signed an agreement to sell a 25% undivided interest in the 1038MW Freestone Energy … and more »

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Calpine signs agreement to sell 25% undivided interest in Freestone Energy istockAnalyst.com (press release) (Source: Datamonitor)Calpine Corporation, a natural gas and geothermal energy provider, has signed an agreement to sell a 25% undivided interest in the … and more »

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CleanTechnica

Stimulus Bill Has Put Almost 8 GW of Geothermal Energy on US Grid CleanTechnica By comparison with an average-sized power plant at 250 MW, many of these geothermal power plants are small, with many ranging from just 10 MW to 70 MW. …

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Ormat, NGP partner to develop geothermal power plants in Oregon Energy Business Review The parties plan to start construction and drill at least one development well for the first power plant with an expected generation capacity of up to 30MW … and more »

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