The Australian Research Cluster of the International Energy Agency’s Geothermal Implementing Agreement (IEA-GIA-ARC) met at the PIRSA offices in Adelaide on Friday 19th January to discuss, amongst other things, a better name with a more euphonious acronym for the group. 

The “coalition of the excited” (to quote Barry Goldstein) included representatives from industry, academia, state and federal governments. The group enjoyed a robust discussion about the barriers to geothermal and what can be done to minimise them. 

Those of you in organisations that are not presently members of the “coalition” can contact Tony Hill at PIRSA ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) to find out more about it, or to suggest a new name. (AGOG—the Australian Geothermal Organisation Group has already been suggested.)