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Mar 18, 2010CanGEA Chair & Founder Alison Thompson to Participate in Upcoming 23rd IEA Annex and ExCo
CanGEA Chair and Founder, Alison Thompson will be participating in the upcoming 23rd International Energy Association (IEA) Annex and ExCo in Bali, Indonesia April 22 – 23, 2010. CanGEA sits on the IEA Geothermal Implementing Agreement (GIA) Executive Committee and will be participating in Annexes III (Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)), VII (Advanced Geothermal Drilling Techniques) and VIII (Direct Use of Geothermal Energy).
About the IEA – Geothermal Implementing Agreement:
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 February 2010, there are 19 Members: 12 Countries- Australia, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the United States; the European Commission, and 6 Sponsors: Canadian Geothermal Energy Association, Geodynamics Limited, Geothermal Group of Spanish Renewable Energy Association, Green Rock Energy Limited, ORMAT Technologies Inc. and ORME Jeotermal.
For more information see the IEA Geothermal Energy website
