Geothermal Energy

Geothermal Energy: clean and sustainable

Geothermal energy is a widely accepted renewable source of energy with a lot of advantages. It’s a domestic and therefore crisis-proof and base-loadable: geothermal plants can provide environmental friendly heat or chill and power at all times. Geothermal technologies have to be developed further on, in order to increase the planning reliability, to achieve a better dependability and a sufficient efficiency in the plant operation. GeoEn will contribute to that.
Further research is needed especially in the reservoir exploration and exploitation of deep geothermal heat sources. Optimization and increase of the efficiency of plant components at the surface has to be achieved in order to provide an industrial production. Newly developed system solutions for a crisis-proof domestic power supply have economic advantages: the competition for the domestic industry will be improved and new jobs are created.

The goal: Energy from the depths of the Earth

GeoEn contributes together with other projects in the field of geoenergy research to the work of the International Centre for Geothermal Research (ICGR) at the German Research Centre for Geosciences. The task of the centre is the development of reliable efficient geothermal technologies, the promotion of international geothermal networks and the distribution of geothermal technologies.  Under the head of the centre is the geothermal research power plant Groß Schönebeck. Its thermal water circulation uses two more than four kilometers deep research wells. All necessary system components of the geothermal equipment are tested and recommendations for their qualification are worked out at this pilot site during operation.

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Further information:

Internationales Geothermiezentrum

International Centre for Geothermal Research (ICGR)

In Groß Schönebeck heavy equipment is used: drill bit for the geothermal borehole.
Picture: GFZ Potsdam

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