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Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) is exploring the viability of extracting minerals, such as silica and lithium from geothermal brine in a bid on diversifying its revenue base.

With the introduction of the 1 GW Geothermal Country Club of countries with more than 1,000 MW of geothermal power generation capacity, we naturally also need to highlight some of the companies behind that. One of them is POWER Engineers that is proud having worked on geothermal projects of a total of more than 1,000 MW in capacity.

In a great blog post, NZ software house Seequent shares its view on how important diversity is today beyond the link of diversity with company financial outperformance, highlighting other business benefits. With the support of the Women in Geothermal initiative with a Diversity Scholarship, Seequent plays a great role in support of women in the geothermal sector and wider diversity.

UK government has pledged GBP 20 million to the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), a global knowledge and technical assistance program administered by the World Bank that has been doing some great work on geothermal energy.

Utility SWM has successfully completed pump tests for the second well drilled for its geothermal heating project in Munich, Germany

With the climate talks at COP24 in Katowice, Poland ending, the overall vibe regarding outcomes is grim, as described in a good overview by James Ellsmoor in Forbes. Staying positive and optimistic is challenging, but we have no choice and need to continue the fight.

The International Energy Agency - Geothermal Technology Collaboration Program and the International Geothermal Association will hold a Baltic Sea Geothermal Symposium in conjunction with the GeoTHERM expo & congress, February 13, 2019 in Offenburg/ Germany.

Work on road access to the Puna geothermal power plant in Hawaii has started and will help in establishing what's needed to bring the plant back into operation.

The World Bank, Canada and the United Kingdom have announced financial assistance to countries in their transition from coal to accelerate the uptake of cleaner energy.

Research on deep subsurface heat as potential major future energy resource/ geothermal power generated from UK granites will receive GBP 1.8m in funding announced as part of a funding round by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The research is a joint research in conjunction with the United Downs Deep Geothermal Power Project in Cornwall.