Mobilizing risk capital to unlock the global potential of geothermal power (English)

Geothermal heat is increasingly being used around the world to produce electricity in an environmentally friendly way. Current technology could potentially produce more than 70 GW of power, but only about 15 percent of that capacity is currently developed and operating. Most of the high-temperature geothermal resources that are suitable for power generation are located in areas along the global Ring of Fire, a string of volcanoes and seismic areas...

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La Rocca,Roberto;

Johansen,Peter;

Berman,Laura Wendell;

Jayawardena,Migara;
Document Date
2017/01/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
113111
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2017/03/02
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Disclosed
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Mobilizing risk capital to unlock the global potential of geothermal power
Keywords
united nations framework convention on climate change

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La Rocca,Roberto; Johansen,Peter; Berman,Laura Wendell; Jayawardena,Migara.

Mobilizing risk capital to unlock the global potential of geothermal power (English). Live wire knowledge note series|no. 2017/71 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/227681488436151787

Mobilizing risk capital to unlock the global potential of geothermal power (English)

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