ThinkGeoEnergy Global Geothermal Power Plant Map – updated
The ThinkGeoEnergy Global Geothermal Power Plant Map
Alexander Richter
23 Nov 2020
ThinkGeoEnergy is proud to present its new "Global Geothermal Power Plant Map", showing the geothermal power plants of this world all the way down to their cooling towers and buildings.
After neglecting it for all too long, we are proud to announce having finally updated our global geothermal power plant map. You can visit the map by going to the power plant map section on our website, or simply click here.
The map features all the geothermal power plants of this world, the name, country, installed capacity (MW), and technology (Binary, Dry Steam or Flash plant). This builds on top of the extensive research done by ThinkGeoEnergy and a database including all geothermal power plants and all power projects under development.
We will gradually share more of this data in short country overviews. In the near future, we will also share full-fledged reports that will be for sale on a dedicated “research” section on our website.
Regarding the approach to the plants shared on the map, we have set it up to show plants that are operating, yet also included a number of significant plants in a geographic context that are not operating or have since retired. These are though only a handful. Otherwise, we have decided to show only plants that are operating. The “installed capacity” does not reflect the operating capacity, which we have in our database but not show as part of the “pop up” for each plant.
The “plants” shown are often a “plant group”, which combines several units of a plant on one location. Our database contains 522 plant units, which does not translate into actual turbine units, rather a set up of clusters, e.g. the first phase of a plant with 2×45 MW turbines would be “one plant”, while an extension that is located distinctively away would be another “plant” (this could be one turbine unit, but also two different sized turbine units).
Key numbers:
- 522 plant units (not “turbine units”)
- 398 map groups (plants shown on the map)
- We are missing locations of 41 plants (or about 290 MW in capacity) and are working on finding those.
- Total capacity represented on the map 15,500 MW.
If you are missing a plant, or think the location is wrong, please drop us a line at news@thinkgeoenergy.com.
