The 2010 World Geothermal Congress took place between April 25-30, 2010 in Bali,

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. It was called the world's biggest geothermal energy conference.Karishma Vaswani:''Indonesia hosts world's biggest geothermal energy forum'', BBC News, 25 April 2010
retrieved 18 August 2010

History

The World Geothermal Congress is organized every five years by the

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. The previous three conferences took place in

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, Italy (1995), Beppu-Morioka, Japan (2000) and

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, Turkey (2005).

Bali Conference

Attendees from 80 countries were discussing better ways to develop geothermal power as an environmentally friendly

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which can be harnessed in the future for less cost than it is today. The Summit was opened by Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at

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, Bali. The opening was marked by the signing of 12 geothermal-related contracts worth in the range of US$5 billion. Among the contracts were agreements between the Indonesian state power firm PT PLN and PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE) - a geothermal business branch of state oil and gas company PT Pertamina - to develop four geothermal power plants in Sulawesi and Sumatra. The Congress concluded with over 2,500 participants signing the Bali Declaration "Geothermal Energy to Change the World" during the closing ceremony.Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesian
, retrieved 18 August 2010

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Official site

IGA - International Geothermal Association

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The Jakarta Globe article
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