Announcement of 2nd spherical of functions for the GRMF HEAT programme for geothermal direct use (supply: GRMF)
The second spherical of the GRMF HEAT funding program for geothermal direct use initiatives can be kicking off on the Kenya Geothermal Congress on July 2024.
The Geothermal Danger Mitigation Facility (GRMF) can be kicking off the second spherical of funding functions for geothermal direct use initiatives in Africa beneath the GRMF HEAT programme. The kick-off will happen as a part of the Kenya Geothermal Congress to be held from the sixteenth to 18th July 2024 on the Safari Park Resort in Nairobi.
All contents of the kick-off can be out there from the seventeenth of July 2024 on the GRMF web site. Participation within the occasion isn’t a requirement for submitting an EOI.
GRMF HEAT was launched in 2022 as a funding programme for floor & feasibility research particularly for geothermal direct-use. An choice to supply monetary assist for drilling following a profitable GRMF funded floor examine section is at present being developed. The primary GRMF HEAT software spherical was concluded in February 2024. 5 initiatives have been awarded for funding. As a result of excessive degree of curiosity within the programme, the African Union Fee (AUC) determined to start out a second spherical straight away.
Eligibility
The GRMF HEAT fund covers as much as 80% of accepted floor & feasibility examine prices and as much as 20% of accepted infrastructure prices.
The eligible actions beneath the programme embody:
- geophysical surveys and supplementary geological, hydrogeological and/or geochemical surveys;
- shallow temperature gradient wells offered they’re drilled on non-permanent nicely pads;
- infrastructure prices associated to floor exploration resembling entry roads and water provide;
- feasibility examine relating to the exploitation of the useful resource and the out there marketplace for direct use functions;
- preparation of built-in useful resource report together with a temperature gradient map and conceptual mannequin of the useful resource, and identification of high-priority drilling websites.
Geothermal direct use combines a number of social & financial advantages, resembling discount of greenhouse fuel emissions, discount of deforestation, financial savings on power spending, improved meals safety and improved high quality of life. This fashion it targets a number of UN Sustainable Improvement Objectives on the identical time.
The GRMF staff is trying ahead to quite a few expressions of curiosity.
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