A new Italian Technological Platform on Geothermal has been officially launched, on behalf of the Italian Ministry for University and Research. The Platform, whose aim is to support the technological innovation on Geothermal for both electricity production and direct uses, involves at the moment the presence of about 30 companies, about 20 research Institutions and several geothermal associations.

It is anyway opened to all the Italian companies and research Institutes which have interest for the development and the innovation in Geothermal. In the constitutive meeting all the participant bodies have voted to assign the main coordination roles in the Platform.

The role of Chairman of the Platform was assigned to Assoknowledge/Confindustria SIT and the Scientific Direction of the Platform was assigned to INGV. ENEL Green Power has been elected as Referent of industrial partners and IGG-CNR as Referent of research Institutes.