Welcome
to the IEA Geothermal Energy Homepage
Supporting
and Advancing Worldwide Geothermal Energy Use Through International
Cooperation
The 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.
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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
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Heating and Cooling of Buildings
with Geothermal Energy
IEA Demand Side Technologies Workshop, October 2007
GIA Presentation, click: GeoHeatCool
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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)
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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 Global
Geothermal Energy Utilization
EGS induced seismicity information and data at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
EGS Project Management Decision Assistant Handbook
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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)
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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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