Global Geothermal Roundtable 2 | Day 1 Presentations

Session 1 | Accelerating Geothermal Development and Mitigating Resource Risk with Better Data


Drilling Success Rates Based on International Experience	Dr. Subir K. Sanyal, President and Manager, Reservoir Engineering Services, GeothermEx, USA

Developing Global Standards for Classifying Geothermal Resources	Prof. Dr. Horst Rüter, Managing Director, International Geothermal Association Service GmbH, Germany

Early-Stage Data Acquisition as a Factor in Resource Risk	Richard Zehner, Chief Geologist Geothermal Development Associates, USA

Geothermal Data Repository and Geothermal Resource Assessment and Exploration	Prof. Jan Diederik van Wees, Professor, Utrecht University, and Principal Scientist, TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands

Geothermal Data Management Systems	Mario Gonzalez Barbosa, Director Geothermal Energy, Ministry of Energy and Mines, Nicaragua

Experience in East Africa and the Need for Global Classifications and Reporting Standards	Dr. Horst Kreuter, Director Geothermal Power Tanzania

Session 2 | Hard Talk


Geothermal Market Trends	Karl Gawell, Executive Director, Geothermal Energy Association, USA

Session 3 | Resource Risk Mitigation Mechanisms


Global Survey and Comparative Analysis of Geothermal Resource Risk Mitigation	Dr. Subir K. Sanyal, President and Manager, Reservoir Engineering Services, GeothermEx, USA

Individual Support to Private Developers	Tom Harding-Newman, Operations Officer, World Bank Group

	Matthias Tönnis, Underwriter, Munich RE, Germany

Cost-Sharing Mechanisms in East Africa and Latin America	Jens Wirth, Project Manager Energy and Financial Sector of the Latin America & the Caribbean, KfW Development Bank, Germany

Risk-Sharing with Private Developers	Mrs. Yael Taranto, Manager-Senior Economist, Turkish Industrial Development Bank

Geothermal Resource Risk Mitigation Mechanisms	Enrique Nieto, Director Sustainable Projects, Nacional Financiera, Mexico

Mitigating Exploration Risk: Indonisia Experience	Freddy Saragih, Director of Risk Management, Ministry of Finance, Indonesia

	Ernesto Martinez Tiffer, President of Nicaraguan Electricity Company (ENEL)

Session 4 | Utilizing Low-Enthalpy Geothermal Resources


Binary Technologies for Electricity Production	Thora Hlin Thorsdottir, Mechanical Engineer, Verkis Consulting Engineers , Iceland

Binary Geothermal Power Plants: Global Distribution	Nachman Isaac, Vice President, Project Finance and Development, Ormat Technologies, USA

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