General GIA Activities

The activities of the GIA support and advance the development of geothermal energy in numerous ways. The GIA Executive Committee holds two meetings each year to report on national programmes, share information and results of work conducted in the annexes, consider ongoing issues, and plan future activities. The GIA Secretariat assists the Executive Committee with the production of a comprehensive annual report, the writing of informative documents and of papers for international publication and presentation, and the operation and maintenance of a GIA webpage for worldwide information dissemination. In addition, the results of our annex work are presented in reports, at international conferences and in international journals.

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Achievements

Proceedings and Presentations from the

Joint GIA-IGA Workshop-

Geothermal Energy- Its Global Development Potential and Contribution to the Mitigation of Climate Change

A 2-day joint GIA-IGA workshop was held in Madrid, Spain, on 5-6 May 2009, to discuss the global potential of geothermal energy and its possible contribution to the mitigation of climate change.  The results provided input to the geothermal chapter of the IPCC Special Report on Renewable energy and Climate Change to be published in 2010.  Copies of the workshop proceedings and presentations are available below.  Please direct any questions to:  GIA Secretary

Workshop Proceedings:

Proceedings of the IEA-GIA~IGA Workshop (pdf, 1.4 MB)

Workshop Opening:

Opening of GIA-IGA Workshop- Mr Margarit Roset, IDAE (pdf, 53 kB)

Workshop Introduction:

GIA-IGA Workshop Programme (revised)- Mongillo (pdf, 34 kB)

Introduction to GIA-IGA Workshop- Bromley (pdf, 58 kB)

Geothermal Resource Potential- Categories and Definitions:

Geothermal Resource Potential- Bromley (pdf, 44 kB)

How to Define a Geothermal Resource- Ketilsson (pdf, 2.8 MB)

Definitions of Potential- Rybach (pdf, 222 kB)

Australian Code for Geothermal Reserves & Resources- Lawless (pdf, 128 kB)

Offshore Hydrothermal Resources- Hiriart (pdf, 37 kB)

Geothermal- Current Use and Potentials:

Current Use and Potentials- Rybach (pdf, 72 kB)

Low Temperature Resource Use & Potential- Ragnarsson (pdf, 1.0 MB)

Geothermal Electricity Development in the World (Bertani)- Brophy (pdf, 538 kB)

European Current Use and Potentials- Boissier (pdf, 500 kB)

Geothermal- Barriers, Opportunities and Future Potentials:

Geothermal Deployment- Huenges (pdf, 1.1 MB)

Low Temperature Resource Potentials- 2030 & 2050- Rybach (pdf, 1.1 MB)

Low Temperature Resources in France- Boissier (pdf, 338 kB)

Barriers & Opportunities for Direct Use- GIA Annex VIII- Song (pdf, 455 kB)

Future of Geothermal Development in Europe (EGEC)- Antics (pdf, 260 kB)

Future of Geothermal Energy (Sanyal, revised)- Thompson (pdf, 1.1 MB)

EGS- Risk, Uncertainty, Estimates- Goldstein (pdf, 583 kB)

High Temperature Resource Potentials- 2030 & 2050- Hiriart (pdf, 62 kB)

Contribution to Mitigation of Climate Change

Geothermal Contribution to 2008 IPCC Workshop- Fridleifsson et al. (pdf, 633 kB)

Other Useful Documents:

The following documents provide useful information for the workshop.  Click the titles to access them.

Future of Geothermal Energy (complete)- Sanyal (pdf, 807 kB)

What is geothermal potential- Bertani (2003)? Bertani (pdf, 70 kB)

Scoping Paper-IPCC Special Report RE & Climate Change Mitigation (pdf, 62 kB)

Australian Geothermal Reporting Code (AGEG & AGEA) (website)

EnergyTechnologyPerspectives_KeyInsights Next Steps- Bjerg (pdf, 1.6 MB)

Gulf Coast Geopressure Geothermal Program US DoE (pdf, 840 kB)

First Order Estimate EGS Global Potential- Hill & Mongillo (pdf, 134 kB)

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