Nominations for the 2025 Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award, organized by EGEC, are being accepted till 3 January 2025.
The European Geothermal Power Council (EGEC) has began accepting nominations for the 2025 version of the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award (EGIA). Nominations are open solely till 3 January 2025.
Click on right here to submit your nominations.
The Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award is given to corporations which have made an excellent contribution in the direction of the sphere of geothermal power within the type of progressive merchandise, scientific analysis or undertaking initiatives.
The competitors is looking for European tasks, processes, merchandise, and initiatives from European corporations, entities, or organisations throughout all worth chain and geothermal purposes, supplied that they’re positioned or have operations inside Europe.
The 5 shortlisted shall be introduced on the twentieth of January 2025 and the winner of the award shall be introduced at the GeoTHERM Expo & Congress going down in Offenburg, Germany on 20-23 February 2025. The award is organized collectively by EGEC and Messe Offenburg, organizer of the GeoTHERM occasion.
Final yr’s EGIA was awarded to Vulcan Power for his or her Lithium Extraction Optimization Plant (LEOP), which extracts lithium chloride from geothermal brine which is finally transformed to battery-grade lithium hydroxide. Vulcan Power’s LEOP undertaking stood out for its innovation, sustainability, and potential to reshape the way forward for lithium manufacturing.
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 Commerce Gala’s, 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
Supply: EGEC