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Supporting 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 May 2010, there were 19 Members: 13 Countries- Australia, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the United States; the European Union; and 5 Sponsors: Canadian Geothermal Energy Association, Geodynamics Limited, Geothermal Group of Spanish Renewable Energy Association, Green Rock Energy Limited and ORMAT Technologies Inc. ----------- GIA Keynote Address at WGC 2010 The IEA-GIA had a significant presence at the recent World Geothermal Congress 2010 held in Bali, Indonesia, on 25-30 April 2010. Several GIA papers were presented and an exhibition booth sponsored. The GIA's international efforts were recognized by making its paper: The International Energy Agency Geothermal Implementing Agreement- International Efforts to Promote Global Sustainable Geothermal Development and Help Mitigate Climate Change a keynote address as part of a 1.5 hour panel session entitled: International Efforts to Promote Global Sustainable Geothermal Development (for presentation, click: GIA Keynote Address; for the complete paper, click: GIA Keynote Paper). IEA-GIA Annex presentations are available in the Publications section.
IEA-GIA exhibition booth at WGC 2010, Bali, Indonesia. ----------- GIA-IGA Workshop- Proceedings Now Available!
The Proceedings for the IEA-GIA~IGA International Geothermal Workshop on Global Development Potential and Contribution to Mitigation of Climate Change held in Madrid, Spain, on 5-6 May 2009, is now available. To access, click: Proceedings GIA-IGA Workshop To access the presentations, click: GIA-IGA Workshop Presentations ----------- 2008 GIA Annual Report
To access report, click: 2008 GIA Annual Report Then scroll down to IEA-GIA Annual Reports The Executive Summary is also available. ----------- 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) -----------
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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