Two-day Geothermal Brussels event

The Two-day Geothermal event took place in Brussels on 4^th and 5^th February with more than 60 participants from different European countries.

The day-1 was dedicated to present the first results from the GEOENVI project and the final conclusions of the EC tender: “Study on Geothermal plants’ and applications’ emissions: overview and analysis”. The Study was conducted by the Ernst&Young, RINA and VITO, and aims at setting an adapted methodology for assessing environmental impacts and risks of geothermal projects. All participants were invited to send their remarks to the consortium by Sunday 8^th of February 2020.

The day-2 was dedicated to three sessions:

– The continuation of the GEOENVI seminar presenting mitigation measures of environmental issues and environmental regulations. This session was accompanied by case studies presentation.

– The industry workshop of the Support Unit of the Deep Geothermal Implementation Working Group (SU-DG-IWG) about defining deep geothermal reference plants & assets. Feel free to send your inputs and comments to EGEC at p.dumas@egec.org

– The last session was an ETIP-DG meeting aiming at selecting research priorities for Horizon Europe. The next targets of the Deep Geothermal Implementation Working Group were also discussed. You are able to send your comments and inputs by Friday 21/02/2020

Agenda of the event

Presentations:

Tuesday 4th February :

• Short introduction by the European Commission: M Soede, DG Research
• GEOENVI project overview: P Dumas, EGEC
• Environmental concerns and comparison with other RES: J Maury, BRGM
• Panorama of sustainability studies: S R GUÐJÓNSDÓTTIR, OS
• EC tender “Study on Geothermal plants’ and applications’ emissions: overview and analysis” (Ernst&Young, RINA, VITO)

Joint session: GEOENVI project and the final conclusions of the EC tender:

• Introduction on LCA guidelines, ML Parisi (Siena university)
• Short presentation on Exergy and PES + allocation criteria (electricity and heat), G Manfrida (Florence University)
• Presentation of harmonised methodology for environmental impact assessment with a life-cycle perspective for geothermal systems: I Blanc, MINES ParisTech

Wednesday 5th February :

Morning

• Introduction and Presentation GEOENVI project, Philippe Dumas, EGEC
• Overview of environmental regulations: A Manzella, CNR-IGG & T Garabetian, EGEC
• Case study: Hungary : A Nador, MBFSZ / Italy : L Torsello, COSVIG
• Review of mitigation measures: A Manzella, CNR-IGG
• Case study: France: Guillaume Ravier, ES-geothermie / Italy: Sara Montomoli, ENEL GP
• Presentation of harmonised methodology for environmental impact assessment with a life-cycle perspective for geothermal systems: V Harcouët-Menou, VITO
• Taxonomy regulations and Sustainable finance: What’s in for geothermal?: T Garabetian, EGEC
• Communicating geothermal: F Batini, Rete Geotermica

Afternoon

GEOENVI national workshop for Belgium

A joint SU-DG-IWG & ETIP-DG event:

Industry workshop on monitoring reference plants & assets

SU-DG-IWG – Proposals on Key Performance Indicators:

• Reference plants & assets
• Reference plants Geothermal Heat in the Netherlands
• Reference plants for Switzerland

ETIP-DG Stakeholders meeting

• Expectations from the European Commission
• Presentation & discussion on updated targets for the DG-IWG
• Priority list for the Roadmap implementation: inputs to WP2021-2023
• Updates on Funding instruments: Horizon Europe & Innovation Fund

IWG DG SU platform for industry-research exchange:

• Innovative ideas from research
• ‘Wellbore flow simulator’