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Great potential for geothermal energy utilisation in Munich, Germany

By District Energy posted 11-19-2018 10:59

  

Alexander Richter, Think Geoenergy

Summary

The recent seismic campaign for a geothermal heating project in Munich has been very successful. The project's partners, Erwärme Grünwald, Stadtwerke München and Pullacher Energiegesellschaft are now eyeing the drilling of four to six new wells, maybe even more.

A recent article by German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, writes that the joint seismic exploration of Erdwärme Grünwald and Stadtwerke München was very successful, at least for Pullacher Energiegesellschaft. Now several wells are planned to be drilled.

As early as the beginning of this year massive French special vehicles with powerful vibrating plates drove along roads and paths south of Munich to receive underground geological data for a seismic investigation program, the earth shook a little and clinked glasses here and there in the cupboards in peoples’ homes. Meanwhile, the first preliminary results of the seismic survey are available, and these have now triggered a quake in the business premises of the Pullacher Geothermal Society (IEP), a happy earthquake: “The seismic was very successful,” says Andreas Most, Chairman of the board of the municipal geothermal company Innovative Energy for Pullach (IEP).

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