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June 25/26, 2024
Frankfurt am Main/Germany
IGC Invest Geothermal 2019
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Become part of the IGC Invest Geothermal
After a successful first IGC Invest Geothermal - Geothermal Finance & Investment Forum, ThinkGeoEnergy and Enerchange invite to the second global geothermal investment forum in Frankfurt/ Main in Germany. Held in the center of Europe’s financial sector, the event will be focusing on important elements of investing in geothermal energy development, such as risk mitigation, early stage financing, market incentives, blended financing options, multi-player projects and exit strategies.
With an increasing interest in development in growth markets, such as Turkey, Indonesia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and others, development continues to face the challenge of attracting adequate funding for projects particularly in the early stages of development. While multilateral programs and development banks are helping development in early stages, there is still insufficient equity funding available to move geothermal projects forward.
The IGC Invest Geothermal event is an annual forum and platform for geothermal industry geothermal industry leaders and international investors, including private equity, infrastructure, debt, institutional investors and public equity funds, as well as public funding partners such as development banks, funds and institutions. It further is set up to help increase awareness among investors and the geothermal energy industry to educate about opportunities and challenges of investments in energy infrastructure development globally.
Bronze Sponsor
storengy
As an active player in the energy transition, Storengy store natural gas for 60 years. He is the partner to develop innovative solutions as geothermal energy (heat and/or cold generation, electricity generation and shallow – heat and/or cold generation and storage) and offers production and storage of low-carbon energy.
Program
Welcome
Dr. Jochen SchneiderEnerchange
Overview on global geothermal energy development
Alexander RichterThinkGeoEnergy
Regulatory and financial pitfalls for geothermal projects
Kai ImolauerRödl & Partner
The early stage of geothermal project development is the most critical phase, with high risks and high investment. Experts from Geothermal Developers and will speak about their experience and discuss risk management and financing of geothermal projects.
Chair
Dr. Torsten RosenboomHogan Lovells LLP
Structuring Geothermal in Indonesia
Ali MundakirPertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE)
Geothermal Development in Turkey
Ural HalaçoğluZorlu Energij
Perspective on Geothermal from a Developer of Renewable Energies
Radu GruescuCopenhagen Infrastructure Partners
First-Time Investment in Geothermal Energy
Gregor GruberIKAV/ecoprime Group
Over the past years, geothermal development financing has seen various models being developed. Within this session some of these models re introduced and the role of funding programs and incentives discussed by Investors, Donors and Developers.
Chair
Thomas GarabetianEGEC
De-Risking Geothermal Development – The Case for Latin America
Arndt WierheimKFW Bankengruppe
The reasons behind the Mexican Geothermal Financing Program, current status and perspective
Michelle Ramirez BuenoOverview of the financing of geothermal projects in Latin-America
Christiaan GischlerInter-American Development Bank
OPIC, Geothermal, and the New Development Finance Corporation
Stephen MorelOverseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
Project developers are faced with significant challenges obtaining affordable capital, because investors (debt or equity) are uncomfortable with the risk and the price for external capital is too high for the project to be viable. With larger scaled projects, based on phased PPAs or modular plant developments, i.e. using well head generators, solutions will be introduced and discussed with power plant engineers, developers, operators and investors.
Chair
Amanda LonsdaleFormer Advisor to EAGER and Power Africa
Making Geothermal Cost Competitive in a Dynamic Electricity Market
Antonie de WildeNorth Tech Energy B.V.
Financing of the United Downs Deep Geothermal Power Project, Cornwall/UK
Ryan LawGeothermal Engineering Ltd.
Securing financial support for an unproven geothermal technology - showcase from the Netherlands
Robert WinsloeEavor Technologies Inc.
ORC 2.0 – cost efficient net & gross electricity generation
Wolfgang BrandORCAN ENERGY AG
Electricity generation has been the most prominent target of geothermal project development, however further opportunities for geothermal energy utilisation exist to make projects more profitable. To use geothermal heat directly is an obvious choice, but with the summer periods a gap exists in the business case. Another – upcoming topic is the extraction of minerals from geothermal brines. The session will discuss the multiple usage of geothermal energy.
Chair
Manon StoverVeizades & Associates
Lithium in Geothermal Brines
Dr. Detlev RettenmaierEuropean Institute for Energy Research EIFER
Geothermal for heat production, the French experience
Constant MatonStorengy
Boosting sustainability of greenhouse farming by geothermal energy
Ivan DasRabobank
Powering a Sustainable Special Export Zone in Kenya using Geothermal Energy
Neil HellingsOserian Development Company
With the various features of geothermal energy and the possibilities to finance introduced during the day, this discussion round will draw conclusions on financing geothermal development and the instruments to accelerate project development and technological advancements. The Chair highlight the conclusions of each session and discuss the future challenges with the audience.
Chair:
Alexander RichterThinkGeoEnergy
Amanda LonsdaleFormer Advisor to EAGER and Power Africa
Thomas GarabetianEGEC
Dr. Torsten RosenboomHogan Lovells LLP
Manon StoverVeizades & Associates
After another succcessful congress day speakers and sponsors are invited to the Social Event at a local restaurant with regional cuisine. Participants have the chance to book also a ticket, however, the free places are limted.
Media and Cooperation Partners
ThinkGeoEnergy
ThinkGeoEnergy, is a geothermal focused advisory firm working for corporate clients on strategic, marketing and corporate finance related activities.
The firm operates the leading geothermal news website and network, covering the complete value chain of the geothermal power sector and industrial scale direct use sector globally.
Information website Tiefe Geothermie
The Informationsportal Tiefe Geothermie is the content strongest and most actual news plattform about deep geothermal energy in the German speaking area. The website offers in addition to the news a monthly newsletter and an extensive mercantile directory related to the news and German geothermal projects.
JeotermalHaberler
JeotermalHaberler is the new geothermal news platform for the Turkish market in Turkish language. The is a collaboration between ThinkGeoEnergy, the leading global geothermal news platform and Enerchange. Website: www.jeotermalhaberler.com
Tickets
- Typical Regional Dinner
- including Drinks
- Valid upon availability
- Congress Participation
- 2 Coffee Breaks + Lunch
- Presentation Download
- Valid Until March 22, 2019
Organizer
Enerchange
Enerchange is an agency specialized in providing information services and consultancy in the area of renewable energies. We offer a wide variety of services at highest level. We take care of news portals, organize conferences and events or set up technical publishing – on our own or by order of a third party.
ThinkGeoEnergy
ThinkGeoEnergy, is a geothermal focused advisory firm working for corporate clients on strategic, marketing and corporate finance related activities.
The firm operates the leading geothermal news website and network, covering the complete value chain of the geothermal power sector and industrial scale direct use sector globally.
News
26.03.2019
New presentation about Lithium
Due to the cancellation of MGX Minerals we are glad to announce Dr. Detlev Rettenmaier as new speaker in Session IV. In his presentation "Lithium in Geothermal Brines" Dr. Rettenmaier will give an...
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22.03.2019
Program Flyer released
We are glad to release the Program Flyer of this year's IGC Invest Geothermal. Here you can download the pdf. The printed flyer...
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21.03.2019
Regular Registration prolonged until March 22, 2019
Due to great interest we prolonged the regular registration to March 22, 2019 at 18:00 CET. Moreover, we offer also a registration with the...
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