Messages from the World Geothermal Conference in Melbourne
Sylvain BrogléManager Clemessy (Eiffage Group) France
22 June 2015
An international event which gather the geothermal community each 5 years: 1500delegates from more than 90 countries
• Up to 12 concurrent sessions were held on a variety of topics. Session topics included: Reservoir modelling, Geology, Geophysics, Drilling, Environmental, Direct use, Business strategies, International collaboration, etc.
• Six short courses were held • Five field trips were conducted in Australia and New Zealand.
With the Melbourne Declaration the global geothermal community asks for more support from governments, financial institutions and political decision makers and emphasizes the importance of human resource development, knowledge transfer, policy development and the respect of indigenous peoples.
Papers submitted to the World Geothermal Congress since the first edition in Firenze: inflation of articles?
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China
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Indonesia
France
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Japan
Kenya
Mexico
New Ze
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Philippines
Russia
Switz
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1844 abstracts submitted, 1053 oral presentations and 264 posters
Installed geothermal power worldwide(Bertani 2015)
Other
Costa Rica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Italy
Iceland
Indonesia
New Zealand
Turkey
U.S.
Kenya
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
24
41
59
71
73
90
143
243
306
352
392
Other
Russia
Chile
Turkey
New Zealand
Mexico
Philippines
Iceland
Kenya
U.S.
Indonesia
0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000
1137.5
108
150
203
345
383
630
635
906
2150
2160
Top growth from 2010 to 2015 - Estimated growth: 2015-2020
Installed capacity and production for heat and cold generation (excluding geothermal heat pumps)
Geothermal activity: the good indicators
Wells drilled for geothermal from to 2014: 2218 in 42 different countries
6% increase in comparison with the 5 year previous period
Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
49% for power generation and39% for heat generation and 9% for cogeneration
Key figures and main facts
20 billion US$ spent in 49 countries doubling the score of the last period
34 000 person-years in 52 countries of professional effort of which 55% achieved in the private sector, 22% by public authorities and 11% by governments.
Low development in the direct use sector Good development in power generationAcceleration of very low temperature geothermal business
using heat pumps, around 4 times the direct use sector in Europe, North America and China
Courtesy of Thinkgeoenergy
Existing geothermal power plants and zone of islands to be developed