Africa, Asia and Latin America offer the most promising sales opportunities, according to Ichiro Fukue, senior executive vice president of MHI.

The new partners will offer an integrated turnkey approach to provide poorer nations with construction, engineering, exploration, financing and operational capability, along with supply of components. They will also train workers to develop geothermal reserves and oversee plant maintenance and operations.

Mitsubishi claims to be the leading global manufacturer of geothermal power equipment.