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In the city of Szeged in Hungary, a geothermal heating network is being built with 27 wells, 16 heating plants, and 250 kilometers of distribution pipe network. Upon completion, this will be the biggest geothermal urban heating system outside of Iceland.
As a retrofit of a heating system originally built to run on gas, the Szeged geothermal heating project can also be a blueprint for cities in parts of France, Germany, Italy, or Slovakia.
“The geothermal urban heating development in Szeged is an easy-to-adopt example in many regions of Europe,” said Ladislaus Rybach from the Institute of Geophysics in Zurich. Lajos Kerekes of the Regional Center of Energy Policy Research further added that more than 25% of the EU’s population lives in areas with sufficient geothermal resource for district heating.
Adopting the model of Szeged can also help other European countries attempting to be less depending on the supply of Russian gas. In the case of Hungary, 65% of the country’s oil needs and 80% of its gas needs come from imports from Russia.
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