Southeastern European countries looking towards geothermal
Miskolc, Hungary (source: Mannvit)
Alexander Richter
13 Mar 2013
The region of Southeaster Europe is increasingly looking at geothermal as an option to cut independent from gas and oil for heating and other applications using heat.
With increasing energy costs, primarily for heating, the Southeastern Europe region is increasingly looking at its geothermal option.
Various countries in the region look at geothermal for heating, among them are Hungary, Slovakia, but also Romania for greenhouse heeting.
Serbia also features hot water resources and today the city has an installed heating capacity of 100 MW thermal.
At a recent trip by German countries to Serbia, companies like Geothermeon and 360plus Konsult talked about their interest in teaming up with local partners.
There is also a framework project that “aims to boost the use of renewable geothermal energy in rural areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a research project started by the Czech Development Agency.”
Today, Bulgario uses about 30 percent of its geothermal resources mostly for bathing, space heating, cooling and heating of greenhouses.
There even is an agreement of Japanese Aquafarm for a geothermal power project in Bulgaria at Sapareva Banya. It was to be completed by next year.
Source: Southeast European News
