Projects

The following projects are being researched in cooperation with industrial partners and other research institutes:
 

• Sustainable production and injection of thermal water from the deep sedimentary geothermal reservoir in Groß Schönebeck
• Geothermal research power plant Groß Schönebeck
• Underground Thermal Energy Storages: Optimising the integration of Aquifer Energy Storages in the energy supply system for the German Parliament Buildings, Berlin
• Long-term corrosion monitoring in geothermal plants
• Aspects within the joint research project GeoEn
• Sustainability concepts for exploitation of geothermal reservoirs in Indonesia - Capacity building and methodologies for site deployment
• Evaluating methods and instruments of geothermal technology for electricity, heat and/or cooling production
• Evaluating supporting measures for renewable energies in the heat market from deep geothermal plants (Marktanreizprogramm) from 2009 until 2011

Finished projects  

• Efficient Low Temperature Geothermal Binary Power (Low-Bin)
• Enhanced Geothermal Innovative Network for Europe ENGINE
• Development of technologies for base-load electricity generation from geothermal energy
• Energy technologies 2050 - Focus on research and development in the field of deep geothermal plants