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The Investor's Guide to Geothermal Energy - How to Capitalize On the Heat beneath Your Feet

  • Published: August 2008
  • Region: World
  • 104 Pages
  • Forseo GmbH

The Investor’s Guide to Geothermal Energy” provides you with a comprehensive and market driven insight into all important aspects of geothermal business and project development. It serves as a practical reference tool for the financial community, for stakeholders from the industry, and for novices to geothermal energy.

Taking such a global approach poses quite a bit of a challenge, because the conditions can differ greatly from one location to another. The chosen structure and many special features of “The Investor’s Guide to Geothermal Energy” seek to compensate for the differences in the best possible way, so that it will be valuable to a broad audience and at the same time provide detailed information for the individual decision-making process.
Each project stage, from site identification, exploration, site development, power plant construction to operation and maintenance is looked at from an investor’s point of view:

- capital costs & cost affecting factors
- financing instruments & incentives
- associated risks & risk mitigation tools
- geoscientific & technology barriers and solutions
- investment opportunities and market drivers

Recognized experts and leading geothermal companies are sharing their insight to make this publication the first of its kind.

1. Geothermal 101
1.1. The Heat beneath your feet
1.1.1. Geology
1.1.2. Classifcation of geothermal systems
1.1.3. How much energy do the different geothermal systems contain?
1.2. Geothermal project development at a glance
1.2.1. What kinds of geothermal plants exist?
1.3. Why geothermal energy?

2. Roadmap to successful geothermal project development
2.1. Key factors
2.1.1. Project team
2.1.2. Project developers
2.1.3. Project management
2.1.4. Risk management
2.1.5. Legal requirements
2.1.6. Power purchase agreement (PPA)
2.1.7. Resource related factors
2.2. Phases of a geothermal project
2.2.1. Site identifcation phase
2.2.2. Pre-feasibility phase – surface exploration
2.2.3. Feasibility phase – exploration drilling
2.2.4. Resource development phase
2.2.5. Power plant construction phase
2.2.6. Operation and maintenance phase (O & M)
2.3. Economic Viability

3. Financing Geothermal Energy Projects
3.1. The capital question
3.2. Financing through the development phases
3.2.1. Start-up and site identifcation phase
3.2.2. Pre-feasibility phase – surface exploration
3.2.3. Feasibility phase – exploration drilling
3.2.4. Resource development phase
3.2.5. Plant construction phase
3.2.6. Operation and maintenance phase
3.3. Financing geothermal projects in emerging and developing countries
3.3.1. Multi-lateral institutions
3.3.2. Carbon Credits

4. Geothermal market and investment – challenges and opportunities
4.1. Global market potential & development
4.2. North America
4.2.1. USA – Geothermal N°1
4.3. Central & South America
4.3.1. “Hot Spot” Nicaragua
4.3.2. “Hot Spot” Caribbean Islands
4.3.3. “Hot Spot” Costa Rica
4.3.4. Chile – biggest potential in South-America
4.4. Europe
4.4.1. Electricity
4.4.2. Heating & cooling
4.4.3. Public funding programs in the European Union
4.4.4. “Hot Spot” Iceland
4.4.5. “Hot Spot” Italy
4.4.6. Germany – geothermal boom ahead
4.4.7. “Hot Spot” Turkey
4.5. Asia
4.5.1. “Hot Spot” Indonesia
4.5.2. “Hot Spot” Philippines
4.5.3. China – Direct use giant
4.6. Africa
4.6.1. “Hot Spot” Kenya
4.6.2. “Hot Spot” Ethiopia
4.6.3. “Hot Spot” Djibouti
4.7. Oceania
4.7.1. “Hot Spot” Australia
4.7.2. “Hot Spot” New Zealand
4.8. Technology innovation
4.8.1. Enhanced Geothermal Systems
4.8.2. Supercritical fuids – drilling for higher temperatures
4.8.3. Oil co-production
4.8.4. Geo-pressurized systems
4.9. Geothermal investment – poised for long-term profts
4.10. Geothermal companies and players
4.10.1. Geothermal plays
4.10.2. Geothermal investors
4.10. Ready to capitalize on geothermal opportunities?
Literature

- Enel (Italy) – Ruggero Bertan
- Erdwerk GmbH (Germany) – Dr. Achim Schubert, Dr. Klaus Dorsch
- European Geothermal Energy Council (Belgium) – Philippe Dumas
- Geothermal Energy Association (USA) – Karl Gawell, Kara Slack
- Geodynamics Ltd. (Australia) – Dr. Adrian Williams
- Geothermal Development Associates (USA) – G. Martin Booth III
- GEOWATT AG (Switzerland) – Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Ladislaus Rybach
- GTN Geothermie Neubrandenburg GmbH (Germany) – Peter Seibt, Markus Wolfgramm
- Glitnir Bank (Iceland) – Global Geothermal Energy Team
- H. Anger´s Söhne Bohr und Brunnenbaugesellschaft mbH (Germany) – Martin Müller-Ruhe
- Hans Prömm Wirtschaftsberatung (Germany) – Hans Prömm
- KG Allgemeine Leasing GmbH & Co. (Germany) – Thomas G. Engelmann
- Raiffeisen Leasing (Austria) – Stefan Reininger
- Regierungspräsidium Freiburg (Germany) – Prof. Dr. Ingrid Stober, Marco Jodocy
- Sterr-Kölln & Partner (Germany) – Dr. Michael Kraml, Marissa Walzer, Dr. Karlheinz Rabenschlag, Florian Hess
- Swiss Re (Switzerland) – Marcel Stäheli, Christina Ulardic
- Turboden s.r.l. (Italy) – Carlo Minini
- Università degli Studi di Brescia (Italy) – Claudio Pietra
- Western GeoPower Corp. (Canada) – Ken MacLead
- World Bank (USA) – Helmut Schreiber

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