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Welcome to the IEA Geothermal Energy HomepageSupporting and Advancing Worldwide Geothermal Energy Use Through International CooperationThe International Energy Agency (IEA) Implementing Agreement for a Cooperative Programme on Geothermal Energy Research and Technology, or Geothermal Implementing Agreement (GIA), provides an important framework for wide-ranging international cooperation in geothermal R&D. Its activities presently cover four different research areas: Environmental Impacts of Geothermal Development, Enhanced Geothermal Systems, Advanced Geothermal Drilling Technology and Direct Use of Geothermal Energy. The GIA has begun its third 5-year term of operation, which ends on 31 March 2012. The mission for this term is to promote the sustainable utilization of geothermal energy throughout the world by: improving existing technologies, developing new technologies to render exploitable the vast and widespread global geothermal resources, facilitating the transfer of know-how, providing high quality information and widely communicating geothermal energy's strategic, economic and environmental benefits. As of July 2008, there are 15 Members: Australia, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, the United States, the European Commission, Geodynamics Limited, Green Rock Energy Limited and ORMAT Technologies Inc. ----------- New Sustainability Section A new Geothermal Sustainability section is now available by clicking the PUBLICATIONS button at the left. Two recent papers and a comprehensive list of references are included. 1st Announcement- International Geothermal Sustainability Modelling Workshop A research collaboration workshop on Geothermal Sustainability Modelling is to be held under the auspices of the IEA-GIA in: Taupo, New Zealand, on 10 November 2008. For a copy of the First Announcement Flyer, click: Geothermal Sustainability ----------- Heating and Cooling of Buildings with Geothermal Energy IEA Demand Side Technologies Workshop, October 2007 GIA Presentation, click: GeoHeatCool ----------- 2006 GIA Annual Report
To access the report, click: 2006 GIA Annual Report (pdf, 7.1 MB) To access the Executive Summary, click: 2006 Summary (pdf, 2.1 MB) ----------- Geothermal Information/Data and Public Service Announcements Geothermal Information/Data and Public Service Announcement sections are available by clicking the GEOTHERMAL INFORMATION button at the left. GIA Member Countries' Contributions to GlobalGeothermal Energy UtilizationEGS induced seismicity information and data atLawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryEGS Project Management Decision Assistant Handbook ----------- GIA Strategic Plan 2007-2012 The GIA Strategic Plan 2007-2012 is available in the PUBLICATIONS section. To access, use the PUBLICATIONS button at the left, or To go directly to it, click: GIA Strategic Plan 2007-2012 (doc, 306 kB) ----------- Last Updated 18 July 2008 The IEA Geothermal Implementing Agreement (GIA), also known as the Implementing Agreement for a Cooperative Programme on Geothermal Energy Research and Technology, functions within a framework created by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Views, findings and publications of IEA GIA do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the IEA Secretariat or of all its individual member countries. |
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