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Geothermal energy and beer - Drilling for geothermal below the Munich Octoberfest

By District Energy posted 09-09-2019 14:31

  

Alexander Richter, Think Geoenergy

Summary

The fifth well for the geothermal heating plant of Stadtwerke München (SWM), the city utility of Munich, is being drilled below the Oktoberfest, the infamous annual beer festivities of Munich.

While everything above ground is prepared for the consumption of cool drinks, the SWM is drilling in at a depth of 2,200 meters for hot water. The fifth of six boreholes for the geothermal heating plant in Sendling leads from the Bohrplatz in the Schäftlarnstraße diagonally below the Theresienwiese, place of the Oktoberfest, as reported by local Munich Abendzeitung.

On the surface, there is no sense of the drilling work. By mid-September, the fifth well is to reach the final depth, the sixth and final hole should finally be completed by April 2020.

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