Euractiv
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Hungary sits on a huge geothermal basin and already has district heating infrastructure in place to deliver clean energy to citizens. And despite this, the government is making no effort to take advantage of it, experts say.
Geothermal energy is a local, renewable technology that uses underground heat to provide heating and cooling or electricity to the surrounding area.
For countries like Hungary, which sits on the geothermal-rich Pannonian Basin and has Soviet-era district heating grids already in place, geothermal energy is a potentially low-cost, clean alternative to fossil fuels in heating.
“Due to its special geological setting, Hungary has very favourable natural conditions for geothermal energy production,” said Sandor Ronai, a Hungarian MEP from the opposition left-federalist Democratic Coalition (Demokratikus Koalícíó) party.
“However, geothermal still plays a disproportionately weak role in the Hungarian energy market,” he added.
Today, more than 650,000 Hungarian homes are connected to district heating networks, the MEP said. “These homes all could be heated by geothermal energy,” he remarked.
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