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?

Australi

e

China

German

y

Indonesia

France

Icelan

d

Japan

Kenya

Mexico

New Ze

aland

Philippines

Russia

Switz

erlan

d

Turke

y

USA

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

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