The Investor’s Guide to Geothermal Energy – How to Capitalize On the Heat beneath Your Feet Serves As A Practical Reference Tool for the Financial Community

Dublin - Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/d26e0c/the_investors_gui) has announced the addition of the "The Investor's Guide to Geothermal Energy - How to Capitalize On the Heat beneath Your Feet" report to their offering.

The Investors Guide to Geothermal Energy provides you with a comprehensive and market driven insight into all important aspects of geothermal business and project development. It serves as a practical reference tool for the financial community, for stakeholders from the industry, and for novices to geothermal energy.

Taking such a global approach poses quite a bit of a challenge, because the conditions can differ greatly from one location to another. The chosen structure and many special features of The Investors Guide to Geothermal Energy seek to compensate for the differences in the best possible way, so that it will be valuable to a broad audience and at the same time provide detailed information for the individual decision-making process.

Each project stage, from site identification, exploration, site development, power plant construction to operation and maintenance is looked at from an investors point of view:

- capital costs & cost affecting factors

- financing instruments & incentives

- associated risks & risk mitigation tools

- geoscientific & technology barriers and solutions

- investment opportunities and market drivers

Recognized experts and leading geothermal companies are sharing their insight to make this publication the first of its kind.

Key Topics Covered:

-	Geothermal 101

-	Roadmap to successful geothermal project development

-	Financing Geothermal Energy Projects

-	Geothermal market and investment  challenges and opportunities

Sources/Contributors:

- Enel (Italy) Ruggero Bertan

- Erdwerk GmbH (Germany) Dr. Achim Schubert, Dr. Klaus Dorsch

- European Geothermal Energy Council (Belgium) Philippe Dumas

- Geothermal Energy Association (USA) Karl Gawell, Kara Slack

- Geodynamics Ltd. (Australia) Dr. Adrian Williams

- Geothermal Development Associates (USA) G. Martin Booth III

- GEOWATT AG (Switzerland) Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Ladislaus Rybach

- GTN Geothermie Neubrandenburg GmbH (Germany) Peter Seibt, Markus Wolfgramm

- Glitnir Bank (Iceland) Global Geothermal Energy Team

- H. Angers Shne Bohr und Brunnenbaugesellschaft mbH (Germany) Martin Mller-Ruhe

- Hans Prmm Wirtschaftsberatung (Germany) Hans Prmm

- KG Allgemeine Leasing GmbH & Co. (Germany) Thomas G. Engelmann

- Raiffeisen Leasing (Austria) Stefan Reininger

- Regierungsprsidium Freiburg (Germany) Prof. Dr. Ingrid Stober, Marco Jodocy

- Sterr-Klln & Partner (Germany) Dr. Michael Kraml, Marissa Walzer, Dr. Karlheinz Rabenschlag, Florian Hess

- Swiss Re (Switzerland) Marcel Stheli, Christina Ulardic

- Turboden s.r.l. (Italy) Carlo Minini

- Universit degli Studi di Brescia (Italy) Claudio Pietra

- Western GeoPower Corp. (Canada) Ken MacLead

- World Bank (USA) Helmut Schreiber

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