Update on German Geothermal Development (ThinkGeoEnergy.)
The German Geothermal Energy Association (GtV – Bundesverband Geothermie) has recently published an overview of current installed capacity of geothermal installations for 2012.
The German geothermal industry differentiates between “Deep Geothermal (applications)” at a depth of below 400 m and “Shallow Geothermal” at a depth above 400 meters deep.
Today, there are 22 geothermal facilities in operation with an installed capacity of 223 MW including 5 geothermal power plants with a combined capacity of 12.5 MW.
There are today 59 projects in planning or development. Thereof 16 are currently in development, with a combined electricity generation capacity of 42.6 MW and a geothermal heating capacity of 171 MW thermal. The planned depth ranges from 600m to a depth of 5,200 meters. Three of the projects in development are classified as EGS projects.
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