The Municipality of Campi Bisenzio, a phasing-out [1] industrial ìboroughî of Greater Florence has just kicked-off and will co-fund together with Tuscany Energy Authority a 3D seismic investigation campaign for a potential low-enthalpy exploitation

The case for a full State commitment lies in a concurrence of characteristics that should probably represents a good practise to any new geothermal initiative globally

In-fact, a concurrence of many heating users of cold Florence winter and many manufacturing SMEs that could take advantage of the source is matching one of the principles of the Florence Region energy planning, just drafted, i.e. RES applications acquire priority where a cascade heat recovery is pre-feasible

At the bottom of a geothermal supply chain, there is a well-head 38?C evidence of a 640m deep water-well in the attached Prato Municipality that enforced reasonable expectations of the Tuscany Energy Strategy on this geological basin, although several concerns by Authorities and a by-law environmental impact assessment bottleneck stopped the initial momentum; all the issues have been eventually worked-out and finally it has been obtained a screening-for-approval procedure to by-passing the relevant assessment phase for seismic only

A standard check-list for grants is proposed to speed-up new geothermal initiatives

[1] definition for European areas in advanced process of economical and social recovery by the year 2005

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