Reason for hope

In Geretsried, Upper Bavaria, the ener­gy com­pa­ny Eav­or is set­ting new stan­dards in geot­her­mal ener­gy with its Eav­or-Loop™. In the world’s first closed-loop geot­her­mal pow­er plant, water cir­cu­lates through a com­plex tun­nel sys­tem at a depth of more than four kilo­me­ters, where it absorbs heat from the sur­round­ing rock. Back at the sur­face, it can be fed into the dis­trict heat­ing net­work or used to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty. The approach does not require ther­mal water, mak­ing it loca­tion-inde­pen­dent and flex­i­ble in its appli­ca­tion. The project in Geretsried can save around 44,000 tons of CO2 annu­al­ly and sup­ply up to 8.2 megawatts of elec­tri­cal or 64 megawatts of ther­mal ener­gy.

Rein­hausen is also con­tribut­ing to the ener­gy tran­si­tion with its solu­tions.

Eav­or-Loop™ can feed the ener­gy it cap­tures direct­ly into a dis­trict heat­ing net­work via a heat exchang­er.

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