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Largest geothermal heating plant in Germany begins implementation

Largest geothermal heating plant in Germany begins implementation Drilling rig on site at HKW Süd, Munich/ Germany (source: SWM)
Alexander Richter 24 Feb 2021

Work on adapting a conventional heating plant to feed geothermal heating to 80,000 inhabitants of the city of Munich in Bavaria, Germany have begun.

Stadtwerke München (SWM), the city utility of Munich in Germany has engaged Germany-based building envelope, interior fit-out and insulation company Lindner Group for the implementation of of the construction for the largest geothermal plant in Germany.

The HKW Süd, is the oldest conventional generation site of SWM having been in operations for more than 120 years. With its implementation of a wider geothermal strategy for the energy future of the city, SWM had drilled geothermal wells on the site to be able to feed in geothermal heat into the district heating system.

With the renewed renovation, the largest geothermal energy plant in Germany is now being built at the site. It will provide more than 80,000 people with ecological heat. In addition, the combined heat and power plants in Sendling are being modernised in order to generate electricity and heat even more efficiently.

The Lindner Group won the order for industrial padded steam and the thermal water buildings as well as for the outer pipe route, district heating, cooling and connection to geothermal energy. For more than five years, Lindner Isoliertechnik & Industrieservice GmbH have also been a framework agreement partner of Stadtwerke München for all energy locations in the city.

The execution of the orders for the energy location HKW Süd has already started.

Our friends at Erdwerk in the city were involved resource aspects of the project, and German drilling company Daldrup & Söhne AG drilled 6 wells for SWM on the site.

Source: Company release