Development of Geothermal District Heating in Germany
- Key words
- Green district heating; deep geothermal energy; renewable heating and cooling; Germany
- Location
- Germany
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 2014
- Session
- Direct use; District heating/cooling
- Language
- English
Abstract
The heating and cooling sector plays an important role with respect to the primary energy demand, as in the EU and all over the world heat and cold demand accounts for about 50% of the final energy consumption. The potential of geothermal energy for this sector and not just for electricity supply is vast: the RHC (Renewable heating and cooling panel ? European Technology Platform) estimates in 2020 over 25% of heat consumed in the EU could be generated with renewable energy. By 2030 RHC technologies could supply over the half of the heat used in EU-Europe. Besides geothermal energy, biomass and solar power are the basis of RHC. One of the reasons for an optimistic look into a renewable future in Germany is the increasing use of highly effective district heating systems with geothermal energy as base load.
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