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State of North Rhine-Westphalia looks at geothermal heating for a time post-coal

By District Energy posted 09-10-2018 11:29

  

Alexander Richter, Think Geoenergy

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At a recently held geothermal event in the city of Bochum in Germany, it was looked at how can heat supply and district heating supply in metropolitan areas be made climate-friendly or even climate-neutral in the post-coal era?

For a time beyond the current use of coal, geothermal energy was described as a building block to successfully shape the heat and energy transition in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).  This was the conclusion of the Geothermal Conference in the Geothermal Center Bochum, attended by about 150 experts on 6 September.

State Secretary Christoph Dammermann (FDP) in the Ministry of Economic Affairs: “Geothermal energy is an important component of future and responsible heat supply in North Rhine-Westphalia. The application numbers in the first half of the year also show that this trend continues unchanged. ”

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