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Planned geothermal heating project in Aarhus, Denmark could heat up to 100,000 households

By District Energy posted 09-28-2020 15:49

  

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Energy miracle with risk: Aarhus will have the state with to the low heat from Earth’s interior Planned geothermal plant in Aarhus will provide heat to 100,000 households.

Thisted has the country’s first geothermal plant. Operations manager Søren Højmose Damgaard shows how it works when hot water from the ground provides heat in the radiators. [VIDEO}

It could sound like a bit of a miracle solution to a large part of the energy needs of the country’s second largest city.

A geothermal plant in Aarhus that will draw hot water up deep from the ground and supply 100,000 households with heat in the radiators. Without releasing CO2 .

But first a lot of money must be spent on drilling a hole several kilometers down to the hot water in the subsoil, and then an entire district heating system must be converted to geothermal heat.

Aarhus Municipality has AP Møller Holding as an investor, which takes a large part of the risk in return for a larger part of the possible gain. But it is also necessary for the state to invest in the climate-friendly heat supply in Aarhus.

This is the opinion of both the city council and AP Møller Holding, who want the state to join.

“We need security that we will not pass on a whole lot of development costs – on behalf of the whole of Denmark – to the district heating customers in Aarhus”, says Mayor Jacob Bundsgaard (S).

Since 1984, Thisted Municipality has had a plant that stably supplies heat to 1,200 households . But that in Aarhus must be much bigger.

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