Your input needed – Industrial applications of geothermal heating and cooling
The EU-funded GEOSYN (Geothermal Synergy) project
Carlo Cariaga
7 May 2025
The GEOSYN project would like your input for a survey on experiences in integrating geothermal heating and cooling in industrial settings.
In order to increase awareness and trust on geothermal energy from companies interested in decarbonizing and improving their efficiency, the GEOSYN Project will showcase existing experiences of integrating geothermal H&C integrations in industry, through an open-access online database.
With these goals, the Project consortium is carrying out a survey to map and collect data on existing cases through an online questionnaire. Click here to respond to the questionnaire.
GEOSYN is the acronym of Geothermal Synergy: Enhancing Industrial Energy Efficiency Through Steam High Temperature Heat Pumps and Heat-Powered Cooling Systems with Operational Flexibility and Public Trust.
The project was launched in November 2024 and groups ten partners from five European countries, which will develop and validate an environmentally sustainable solution for heating and cooling needs in industrial processes using temperatures between 150 °C and 250 °C.
The objective of the research is to encourage the cascading use of heat, as well as thermal energy coming from both deep and shallow underground formations, through an innovative steam heat pump combined with a heat-powered refrigeration cycle, which uses water as the natural refrigerant. The system will also consider solutions for operational flexibility, through high temperature underground thermal energy storage (50-150 °C).
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