Nominations open for 2025 Ruggero Bertani geothermal innovation award

The European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC) has started accepting nominations for the 2025 edition of the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award (EGIA). Nominations are open only until 3 January 2025.

Click here to submit your nominations.

The Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award is given to companies which have made an outstanding contribution towards the field of geothermal energy in the form of innovative products, scientific research or project initiatives.

The competition is calling for European projects, processes, products, and initiatives from European companies, entities, or organisations across all value chain and geothermal applications, provided that they are located or have operations within Europe.

The five shortlisted will be announced on the 20th of January 2025 and the winner of the award will be announced at the GeoTHERM Expo & Congress taking place in Offenburg, Germany on 20-23 February 2025. The award is organized jointly by EGEC and Messe Offenburg, organizer of the GeoTHERM event.

Last year’s EGIA was awarded to Vulcan Energy for their Lithium Extraction Optimization Plant (LEOP), which extracts lithium chloride from geothermal brine which is eventually converted to battery-grade lithium hydroxide. Vulcan Energy’s LEOP project stood out for its innovation, sustainability, and potential to reshape the future of lithium production.

The jury for the 2025 EGIA is as follows:

• Miklos Antic| EGEC President
• Luc Poeckele | RHC ETIP Chairman geothermal panel, RED S.r.l.
• Luca Xodo | ETIP geothermal Chair, STEAM
• Frank Thieme | Head of Trade Fairs, Geotherm Expo&Congress
• Gerdi Breembroek | IWG on geothermal Chair
• Kamila Izabella Piotrowska | EGEC Vice-president
• Jan-Diederik Van Wees| ETIP geothermal Vice-chairman
• Sara Montomoli | EGEC Member of the Board

Source: EGEC

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