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• Pacific asia | 
Malaysia, Papua New Guinea
• africa | 
Tanzania, Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia, Malawi, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Madagascar, Comoros and Mauritius, and several North African
countries
• latin america |
Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and several Caribbean
island states, including Cuba and Haiti

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TEChNOLOgy OvErvIEw
Power generation by Available Technologies
This handbook follows a standard classification based on the definitions for five different types of 
power plants: binary, single flash, double flash, back pressure, and dry steam. The relative share 
in power generation in 2010 for each of these technologies is reflected in Figure 1.13. No other 
technologies are used to generate power from geothermal resources. Utility scale electricity generation 
mainly takes place in conventional steam turbines and binary plants, depending on the characteristics 
of the geothermal resource.