30 Mar 2022
The mission of the Horizon 2020 funded CROWDTHERMAL project – in which GEOPLAT participates as a partner- is to empower the European public to directly participate in the development of geothermal projects, with the help of alternative financing schemes and social engagement tools. The project team has developed a set of reports, addressing social, environmental, financial, and risk mitigation aspects of community-financed geothermal projects. The...
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25 May 2019
GEOPLAT is pleased to announce its participation in the project GEO-URBAN: Identification and Assessment of Deep Geothermal Heat Resources in Challenging Urban Environments. In the project, specialists from Ireland, Denmark and Spain collaborate in the analysis of geothermal resources in urban areas in order to explore their potential use as a source of thermal energy. The ability to use geothermal resources to generate heat in urban...
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17 Mar 2015
The Department of Energy of the United States (US DOE) has recently published the 2014 Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) Annual Report , whisch is a product of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. GTO pursues transformative, high-risk/high-reward science and engineering. This issue highlights 35 project successes in all of our program areas – EGS, Hydrothermal, Low-Temperature, and Systems Analysis – which are flanked by useful tools and...
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