Conference on Geothermal District Heating, Brussels, Sept. 22-23, 2014
Brussels, Belgium (source: flickr/ Neil Thompson, creative commons)
Alexander Richter
3 Sep 2014
A consortium of several geothermal organisations in Europe is organising two events on Geothermal District Heating in Europe, September 22 and 23, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.
The Geothermal District Heating Project (GeoDH) will be holding two conferences in Brusssels on the prospective and potential for geothermal district heating in Europe, as well as information on financing, business models and regulation.
The second session will cover the technological developments and will be held in collaboration with a geothermal panel meeting, covering the Horizon 2020 in 2015 work programme.
These sessions will be preceded by a conference on the EU’s Energy security strategy and the 2030 climate and energy package.
European Conference on Geothermal District Heating: 22 September PM
Speakers from industry, government, and research will cover topics including:
- Role of Renewables in security of supply
- Potential for GeoDH in Europe
- Business models
- Innovative financial models
- Best practice legislative models
- The impact of European policy on the GeoDH market
- Technology Developments
Location: Bibliothèque royale de belgique/Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Boulevard de l’Empereur 2, 1000 Bruxelles
Geothermal Panel Meeting with a focus on Geothermal District Heating: 23 September AM
Following the last oversubscribed event in January, this meeting of the Geothermal Panel will cover the technological developments in Geothermal District heating and the 2015 work programme of Horizon 2020- including calls on EGS and borehole heat exchangers for shallow geothermal
Location: Renewable Energy House, Rue d’Arlon 63-67 , 1040 Brussels
These events will be preceded by:
Rescuing Europe from energy dependency: the role of renewables.’ Policy Conference: 22 September AM.
This event is organised in collaboration with EGEC, AEBIOM, ESHA, ESTELA, ESTIF, and EUREC
Location: Bibliothèque royale de belgique/Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Boulevard de l’Empereur 2, 1000 Bruxelles
For details about the events, see: http://geodh.eu/events/european-conference-on-geothermal-district-heating/
In Europe, there are over 5,000 district heating systems installed in 2012 (including 212 geoDH systems), and the market share of district heat is about 10% of the heating market. There are already several Eastern and Central European countries (such as Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania) with geothermal DH systems installed. However, as suggested in several NREAPs (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) the potential is much larger. The challenge now is to remove administrative and financial barriers in order to facilitate the penetration of geoDH. In the other Eastern and Central Europe countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovenia) there is both the need to convince decision makers and to adopt the right regulatory framework but also to establish the market conditions for a development of the GeoDH market.
