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Project InnerSpace today announced the launch of GeoMap™ South America, a geothermal exploration platform that reveals the continent's vast untapped geothermal potential to deliver firm, locally produced and sustainable power, long-duration subsurface storage, industrial-scale heat, and resilient heating and cooling for buildings.
GeoMap™ integrates millions of surface and subsurface data points into an interactive, freely accessible platform and shows the continent contains some of the highest heat flow zones in the world. GeoMap™ South America highlights where geothermal potential is strongest, including:
- Dozens of high-potential geothermal power production zones along the Andean volcanic belt with resources capable of generating tens of gigawatts of firm electricity, including Argentina (1200 GW), Peru (400 GW), Colombia (300 GW) and Chile (200 GW).
- Opportunities for industrial applications in mining and mineral processing, showing strong alignment between critical mineral deposits and high geothermal favorability, and offering opportunities to power mining operations with clean, local geothermal energy, particularly in northern Chile, southern Peru, and northwestern Argentina.
- Urban resilience solutions through district heating and cooling in major cities from Bogotá to Caracas and Santiago, improving quality of life and energy security.
- Brazil's geothermal resource of over 2000 GW holds exceptional potential for power, energy storage, cooling, and industrial heat. Areas in the northeast part are ideal for renewables-integrated subsurface energy storage systems. The Amazonas Basin could support cooling, and the Paraná Basin may offer synergies with local energy needs. Brazil also has potential for geothermal Industrial heat and power generation in select locations.
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