JEOTERMAL ELEKTRIK SANTRAL YATIRIMCILARI DERNEGI

Their core work

This is Turkey's association of geothermal power plant investors, based in Izmir — one of the most geothermally active regions in the world. Their core mission is to represent the commercial and operational interests of geothermal electricity producers. In EU research projects they function as an industry voice: contributing real-world investor and operator perspectives to studies on risk management and environmental impact of geothermal energy. Their participation exclusively in Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) signals that their role is policy influence, regulatory input, and knowledge dissemination rather than laboratory or applied research.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects began in 2018, so there is no meaningful temporal progression to analyze within the available data — the organization's entire H2020 portfolio represents a single coordinated period of activity rather than an evolving research trajectory. Within that single window, their work covered two complementary barriers to geothermal investment: risk perception (GEORISK) and environmental legitimacy (GEOENVI), suggesting a deliberate strategy rather than organic drift. Whether their focus has shifted since 2021 is not visible from H2020 records alone.

Both projects launched simultaneously in 2018 under CSA funding, suggesting the organization used H2020 as a targeted instrument to shape European geothermal policy on two fronts; future collaborations would likely follow the same industry-advocacy model around regulatory harmonization or investment-barrier reduction.

How they like to work

This organization exclusively joins consortia as a participant and has never held a coordinator role, indicating they contribute specialist industry knowledge rather than lead research agendas. With 28 unique consortium partners across 10 countries from just 2 projects, they operate within large, multi-stakeholder CSA consortia typical of European policy-shaping initiatives. This profile is characteristic of trade associations that lend industry legitimacy and real-world grounding to research while gaining access to emerging regulatory frameworks and European networks.

They have engaged 28 unique consortium partners across 10 countries through only 2 projects — a notably broad network relative to their project count, reflecting the large multi-actor consortia typical of CSA instruments. Their reach extends across Europe and Turkey, consistent with the pan-European scope of both geothermal projects.

What sets them apart

As the representative association of geothermal power plant investors in Turkey — a country with one of the world's highest installed geothermal capacities — this organization brings an industry perspective that few European research consortia can replicate from within the EU. They offer direct access to operating geothermal plants and investors who carry real financial risk, making them valuable for projects needing genuine industry validation rather than academic proxies. Their non-EU membership also adds a comparative regulatory dimension that strengthens studies on cross-border harmonization.

Highlights from their portfolio

• GEOENVI
  The larger of their two projects (EUR 104,078) and analytically richer — addressing life cycle assessment methodology, environmental regulations, and harmonization for geothermal energy deployment across Europe.
• GEORISK
  Directly targeted the investment-side barrier of risk perception for geothermal projects, aligning squarely with the commercial interests of their investor membership base.