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There is no installed geothermal generating capacity as for December 2009.

 

 

 

In 2000, Alfaro and her colleagues estimated an installed capacity of 13.3 MWt and an annual use of 266 TJ/yr (Lund and Freeston, 2001). They are now reporting 14.4 MWt and 287 TJ/yr, a slight increase (Alfaro et al., 2005). The reported direct-use is entirely for bathing and swimming at 41 sites. In Colombia, the geothermal resources are still under preliminary exploration and currently there are no significant utilization developments. In their paper, Alfaro et al. (2005) describe the exploration studies for the last five years, including drilling in the El Ruiz Volcano geothermal zone, and present an inventory of hot springs with their geological setting and geochemistry of the fluids.

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No country update report was filed for this country as nothing has changed since the last report according to Alfaro (personal communication September, 2009). Thus, the figures from WGC2005 are (see Lund et al., 2005): 14.4 MWt and 287 TJ/yr for bathing and swimming at 41 sites.

Taken from the paper by John W. Lund, Derek H. Freeston, and Tonya L. Boyd: "Direct Utilization of Geothermal Energy 2010 Worldwide Review"; published in Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2010, Bali, Indonesia, 25-29 April 2010