Project InnerSpace completes global geothermal resource map with GeoMap Europe
Project InnerSpace has launched GeoMap Europe, thus completing a geothermal prospecting and resource mapping tool for all regions of the world.
Project InnerSpace has announced the launch of GeoMap Europe, a geothermal mapping and prospecting platform that highlights the vast geothermal potential in Europe.
With this, Project InnerSpace has completed the release of a freely accessible, state-of-the-art geothermal resources map covering very region of the world. The latest release adds to the growing coverage of the GeoMap tool spanning across Africa, North America, India, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and South America.
Europe’s geothermal landscape is unique, combining one of the world’s longest geothermal operational histories with some of its most advanced policy and technology frameworks.
From Iceland’s legacy utilization of geothermal energy for heating and electricity, to the geothermal district heating networks of France, Hungary, and the Netherlands, the continent demonstrates that geothermal can be successfully developed across a wide range of applications and geographies. GeoMap Europe now provides the tools necessary to accelerate and expand on that legacy.
GeoMap Europe highlights include:
- High-temperature resources for power generation: across Iceland; Italy’s Tuscany and Mount Amiata regions; Greece’s Aegean volcanic arc; western Turkey; Hungary’s Pannonian Basin; and France’s Massif Central and Alsace regions—supporting Europe’s growing demand for firm, renewable electricity.
- Significant district heating potential: key cities across Europe can either expand current geothermal heating systems or create new ones, significantly increasing supplies of firm and domestic heat, including Paris, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, as well as Berlin, Warsaw, Hanover, Zurich, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Madrid.
- Industrial clusters co-located with areas of geothermal heat: in key areas, including Northern Italy, Northern France, and Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany, where geothermal can deliver direct process heat, hybrid heat-pump integration, and steam for chemicals, paper, food & beverage, and fuel production, enabling rapid decarbonization via geothermal heat networks.
- Data center cooling and subsurface energy storage via geothermal: opportunities for geothermal-powered cooling and waste-heat reuse in Germany’s Upper Rhine Graben, northern France’s Paris Basin, the Netherlands North Permian Basin, and Hungary’s Pannonia Basin. Subsurface energy storage can balance wind/solar using thick sedimentary basins in northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
“Geothermal is the sleeping clean energy giant that the world has consistently overlooked, while collectively handwringing about the future of energy,” said Jamie Beard, Executive Director of Project InnerSpace.
“If Europe moves quickly to launch its next chapter of geothermal development, energy independence and decarbonization are the dual prize. GeoMap Europe is the tool that will give developers, researchers, and governments a clear picture of where to get started.”
Source: Project InnerSpace via PRNewswire
