City of Tarragona, Spain to explore geothermal potential
Tarragona, Spain (source: Nicolas Vigier / flickr, Creative Commons)
Carlo Cariaga
28 Sep 2022
The city of Tarragona in Spain will be monitoring subsoil temperatures to investigate the viability of geothermal energy for heating and air-conditioning.
The City Council of Tarragona in Spain has signed an agreement with the Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia (ICGC) to deploy a monitoring network to measure the subsoil temperature in the city. Data from these sensors will then be used to assess the potential of using geothermal energy for the heating of buildings, in urban air conditioning networks, and to produce domestic hot water.
Maps will be generated from the data collected by the ICGC which will then be integrated into the free software Geo-SIV so that it can be accessed by the public. Through this effort, the City Council hopes to promote the development of sustainable management strategies and to integrate geothermal energy in the Sustainable Energy Action Plan of the city.
We had previously reported on a software tool developed by ICGC that can help in generating maps to quantify the available energy in the deep aquifers in Spain. The 3D-HIP (Heat in Place) calculator can still be accessed via this link.
Source: DiariMes
