Reykjavik Geothermal, the Icelandic company that’s helped build power plants in more than 30 countries, agreed to develop as much as 1,000 megawatts of projects in Ethiopia over the next 10 years.
stjórnvöld í Eþíópíu um að byggja upp og reka allt að þúsund megawatta jarðvarmaorkuver. Fjárfestingin nemur fjórum milljörðum dollara nánast 500 milljörðum króna.
othermal energy in developing countries, and Iceland will effectively become the Bank’s key partner in this field.
In Corbetti, Southern Ethiopia, RG has for the last year prepared the development of one of the world’s largest geothermal resources. This massive resource is among the world’s largest geothermal sites. RG has acquired geothermal exploration licenses covering an area of more than 6,500 km2.
Mr. Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the UN and co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, recently visited Iceland. Mr. Kofi Annan was particularly interested in learning about Icelandic geothermal utilization, thus he toured the Hellisheidi Power Plant with the President of Iceland, Mr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson.
A ten-day geothermal exploration in Rabaul, East New Britain by experts from Iceland, has confirmed that the province, which is famous for its active volcanoes, does have a lot of potential in developing geothermal energy as a renewable, reusable power source.