Geothermal energy could meet a fifth of UK's power needs – report

Guardian: The UK could meet a fifth of its power needs – the equivalent of nine nuclear power stations – by exploiting geothermal power, a new report into the technology has found. But the report found that the current subsidy regime does not provide sufficient incentive to develop the technology in the UK - even as Charles Hendry, minister of state at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, flew to Iceland on Wednesday afternoon to discuss a possible new interconnector that could be used to import...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/30/geothermal-energy-uk-power
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