The third edition of the European Energy Forum, held April 16th – 18th in Barcelona, was a success. One of the main goals of the European Energy Forum was to show society how importante energy is in our daily life and its direct economic consequences in society as a whole and in its development, strengthening both the congress and the parallel exhibition as a meeting place for the major actors of the energy sector at the Catalan, Spanish and European level.

The European Energy Forum brought together more than 130 speakers who have presented their conferences in two parallel rooms: one dedicated to Energy Policy and the other to Technologies. More that 750 people participated in the congress from several world countries. As for the trade fair, it joined together more than 40 exhibiting companies, occupying  3,000 sqm, mainly from Germany, Italy, China and, naturally, Spain. The visitors were over 2 000, all of them professionals, reveals the organizer’s press release.

Josep-Maria Ribes, Secretary General of the European Energy Forum, highlighted, as far as concerns the exhibiting companies, the Australian company PETRATHERM, dedicated to the production of electrial power and to the direct use of geothermal energy in the form of heat for heating an entire neighbourhood. “In Spain this company has a project in Madrid and another at Tenerife island. The system consists of taking energy from underground hot rivers by drilling holes at a depth of 2 to 3.5 km and then to use the hot water thus obtained in the corresponding exchangers,” he explained. “This method can supply heating to an area of up to 200,000 inhabitants.” 

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