Conference Objectives

Our objectives for GEOLAC are wide-ranging and ambitious:

• Match long-term international funding and world-class technology to regional geothermal opportunities
• Explore possibilities for the transfer and export of expertise and experience from Mexico and Central America to the Southern Cone, Andean and the Caribbean
• Define the regional energy market: demand, supply - and opportunities for geothermal development
• Provide regional utilities and governments making first steps towards geothermal exploitation with a clear roadmap of the core technological, process, and environmental issues
• Provide global geothermal developers and investors with a clear picture of where the regional opportunities lie and the conditions (policy, political, regulatory) which characterize each opportunity
• Understand multilateral/development bank participation across the region and explore the availability of financing for geothermal projects
• Pinpoint the bottlenecks in legislation, tariffs, technology, political will and finance; work towards real world solutions
• Introduce the best in global geothermal developers and technologies to regional energy decision-makers
• Highlight world-class geothermal projects in and out of the region and analyze their success criteria
• Get to grips with the implications for interconnection across the region as they relate to Geothermal development