文摘
As part of the Mexican policies to foster the renewable energies in our country, the Secretary of Energy (SENER) and the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) have decided to support academic-industry alliances in order to promote and accelerate the development of renewable energy. One of these alliances is the Mexican Center for Innovation in Geothermal Energy, CeMIE-Geo. CeMIE-Geo is a group of 23 institutions consisting of academic institutes and private companies led by CICESE, an institution started by CONACYT 40 years ago and aimed for R&D and higher education. CeMIE-Geo has been funded to conduct R&D, technological development and to stimulate innovation in all the areas of geothermal industry. We are working in 30 strategic projects focused in different aspects of geothermal industry, from exploration to production, as well as in projects with high or low enthalpy. In addition we coordinate the preparation of qualified specialists required by the Mexican industry at all levels, from continuous education courses to PhD graduate programs. We are also setting up a highly specialized laboratory system based in the infrastructure existent in the Mexican universities and research institutes, which will be substantially upgraded and integrated in a national system to support R&D as well as to offer world class analytical capabilities to geothermal industry in Mexico and abroad. In this paper we show the projects and programs of CeMIE-Geo and give a view of our general goals and specific objectives.
