Decarbonising cities with geothermal district heating: how to finance it? (GEORISK project)
This seminar was organised as a partnership between the European geothermal industry and European local authorities committed to the energy transition to facilitate the uptake of this clean renewable energy technology. In particular, this workshop was organized in the framework of the
GEORISK project and the
HeatNet NWE project in association with the
Covenant of Mayors has aimed at best answering the following issues:
- Role of local planning in enabling RES investments, notably for heating and cooling
- Impact of local authorities in enabling the business model of geothermal projects
- Barriers to deploying geothermal district heating and cooling projects
- Policy solutions for facilitating deployment of geothermal district heating and cooling
- Financing geothermal projects
Presentations from the workshop are now available:
- Presentation of the GEORISK Project: Philippe Dumas, EGEC
- Presentation by Covenant of Mayors: Fréderic Boyer, Energy Cities – Head of Covenant of Mayors Office
- Heating and cooling master planning, example from the HotMaps project – Julien Joubert, Energy Cities
- Presentation of geothermal market report, Thomas Garabetian, EGEC
- Assessing the risks associated with geothermal DH, Christian Boissavy, AFPG/GEODEEP
- Case study: Case study of Strasbourg Eurométropole – Gerard Pol-Gili
- Presentation GEORISK conclusions on geothermal risk mitigation schemes, Katharina Link, Geothermie Schweiz
- Presentation of business models for DH schemes from HeatNet NWE project – focus on Mijnwater example – Benoit Hofer, Cap Construction
- Roland Schultze, EIB
- Case study on crowdfunding – Lorraine Devouton, Engie
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