Iea-Gia
- 1000 Independence Ave SW # 2C
- Washington, District Of Columbia
- 20585
- Phone: 1 202 586 6054
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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 Techniques 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 May 2007, there are 15 Members: Australia, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, the United States, the European Commission, Geodynamics Limited, Green Rock Energy Limited and ORMAT Technologies Inc. GIA Extended for a 3rd 5-Year Term of Operation! The IEA Committee for Energy Research and Technology, following the positive recommendation by the Renewable Energy Working Party, approved the GIA's application for a third 5-year term of...