The plant supplies around 16,000 households in the city of Munich with geothermal power and provides the inhabitants of Sauerlach with the option to connect to geothermal district heating.
This is the second big investment in geothermal by the utility. Since 2004, he utility has provided around 88 percent of the heat supply for the city of Riem from a geothermal heating plant.
The Sauerlach plant provides heating and power from water with a temperature of around 140 degrees Celsius from wells at a depth of ca. 5,000 meters.
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