Webinar – Geothermal development in island locations, 20 June 2025
Focus on Geothermal webinar - Geothermal development in island locations
Carlo Cariaga
17 Jun 2025
Join us on 20 June 2025 for a webinar on the unique experience and challenges of Ormat in developing geothermal projects in island locations around the world.
As part of the regular Focus on Geothermal Webinar series – a partnership of Enerchange and ThinkGeoEnergy, we are proud to host Simon Webbison of Ormat Technologies for a webinar on “Geothermal Development in Island Locations.”
Other webinar details are as follows:
Date: 20 June 2025
Time: 15:00 CEST / 06:00 PDT
Registration: Click here to register
Speaker: Simon Webbison, Vice President Exploration & Resource Management, Ormat Technologies
Ormat operates the most geothermal fields for electricity generation in the World. As part of this it currently has operating geothermal fields in 6 different countries, with a number of these being remote from service industries and a portion of these are on islands also. Ormat is the only geothermal company with operating assets in Hawaii and the Caribbean and the company is active in exploration in many island locations in places like Indonesia.
This webinar will give some context to Ormat’s experience and will cover some of the unique things required to make geothermal developments happen in island locations and the considerations for operations after exploration and development has occurred. History of geothermal projects on islands are that they often exhibit significant delays and we will talk through how to keep projects accelerated and Ormat’s experience at this.
Simon Webbison is currently the Vice President for Exploration & Resource Management at Ormat Technologies Inc and has been with the company since 2019. Prior to joining Ormat, he was the Subsurface Operations Manager at Mercury in New Zealand, overseeing the operation of four geothermal fields in the Taupo Volcanic Zone. Simon holds an undergraduate and Master’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Waikato and has extensive experience in managing geothermal resources and leading technical teams across multiple countries.
