Webinar – Promoting Deep Geothermal in NW Europe, Sept. 24, 2021
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Alexander Richter
20 Sep 2021
Learn more about the EU-funded DGE Rollout - Promoting Deep Geothermal Energy in North-West Europe with the project leader Dr. Tobias Fritschle at this webinar on Sept. 24, 2021.
As part of the regular IGC Webinar series – a partnership of Enerchange and ThinkGeoEnergy – Dr. Tobias Fritschle of the Geological Service NRW in Germany, will give a presentation on the “DGE Rollout project – Promoting Deep Geothermal Energy in North-West Europe.”
- Date: Friday, September 24, 2021
- Time: 14.00 (CEST)
- Registration: https://www.igc.events/en/webinar
You can register free of charge on https://www.igc.events/en/webinar
The DGE-ROLLOUT – Promoting Deep Geothermal Energy in North-West Europe project is a transnational EU-Interreg funded project. The project aims to foster the use of deep geothermal energy as a climate- and environmentally-friendly resource in North-West Europe (NWE), and therefore aims to reduce CO2 emissions.
Besides the Geological Survey of North Rhine-Westphalia as the lead partner, the DGE-ROLLOUT project partners include the national geological surveys of Belgium, France, and the Netherlands, as well as industry partners (DMT GmbH & co. KG, EBN B.V., RWE Power AG) and research institutions (Fraunhofer Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems IEG, Technical University Darmstadt, Flemish Institute for Technological Research).
One major aim of the DGE-ROLLOUT project involves the geothermal characterisation of the Lower Carboniferous Kohlenkalk Group situated within the Rhenohercynian Basin. Using lithostratigraphic and structural data obtained from drilling operations, geological mapping, and seismic campaigns, the project intends to provide a comprehensive 3D subsurface model of the Kohlenkalk geothermal reservoir within NWE.
Further challenges addressed in the DGE-ROLLOUT project include: the storage of heat in a decommissioned hard-coal mine as well as in crystalline rocks, the optimisation of production outputs through the installation of high-temperature heat pumps and new cascading schemes in several geothermal installations, and the development of innovative decision and exploration strategies promoting the establishment of renewable and sustainable deep geothermal energy.
Similar to the VITO Balmatt Energy Plant (www.vito.be/en/deep-geothermal/balmatt-energy-plant), the conventional lignite-fired power plant Weisweiler (RWE) is aimed to utilise the Kohlenkalk aquifer in its subsurface to introduce geothermal energy into the regional district-heating network following the forthcoming fossil fuel phase-out. First investigations in this instance are undertaken within the DGE-ROLLOUT project.
