What is ThermoMap?

The aim of the ThermoMap project is to estimate the superficial geothermal potential out of existing geoscientific data in nine European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Romania and United Kingdom).


What is the reason for me to participate?

Through your attendance to this questionnaire you will kindly support our further work on the ThermoMap project.
The survey is mainly a multiple choice questionnaire with a few answers to create short bulled points and it will take approx. 10 min to fill out. The sections 1 and 2 are common for all participants, section 3 is individually addressed to industrial, scientific, public and private target group members. Please answer the following questions as far as possible and one by one.


Please be informed: The answers will be anonymously processed and are used only for the internal evaluation. Only the results will be presented to the European Commission to provide a more user-friendly web service.



Short introduction into the ThermoMap project:

The EU funded (ICT PSP) project ThermoMap (duration: 09/10 to 09/13) aims to estimate area wide superficial (10 m depth, defined for this project) geothermal potentials out of existing geoscientific data sets. ThermoMap will combine and analyse already existing data (soil-, climatological-, topographical-, geological-, administrative- and groundwater data) to calculate a value for the geothermal potential in low depth on a large to medium scale.
The analysis of the geodata will be performed in a GIS-environment with standardized methods, valid for the entire EU. The results will be integrated into a WebGIS with a server side and geo-visualization and information front-end. The processing methods developed for the geodata in different test areas across the partner countries and the analysis standards developed in ThermoMap may provide a significant value for energy saving.
In principle many research & development activities in the field of geothermal energy have been planned resp. implemented on a national or international level. Especially with regard to the actual discussions about renewable energies and the protection of resources those activities will be enhanced and the general acceptance of superficial geothermal energy will be increased in the next few years. Currently the geothermal investigations focus on the vertical systems and drilling techniques in higher depths. However, regarding horizontal systems and technologies applicable for the upper 10 meters below surface only very rare information are available within the superficial geothermal energy. The project is divided into two parts:

• The first part is the appraisal within test areas in the different partner countries for the estimation on a large scale level divided in three depth ranges up to 10 meters
• The second part is the estimation of the superficial geothermal potential for the whole partner countries expressed by an outline map on a medium scale level
  

For more information please visit our website http://www.thermomap-project.eu/
or contact the project coordinator:

David Bertermann

Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

+49 9131 85 25824