Highlights

Press Releases of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences related to the Centre for CO₂-Storage.

10.02.2010 | Geothermal Energy and CO₂-Storage: competing use of the underground?

The fight against the CO₂ emissions can be applied at two places: First of all, forms of energy can be used, which yield either no, or only very small amounts of carbon dioxide emissions, for example geothermal energy. Secondly the inevitably freed CO₂ when burning fossil energy sources can be captured and geologically stored in suitable rock formations. If, however, geothermal and geological CO₂-storage need to use the same rock layers, the question arises if the one does not perhaps rule out the other.
 

29.09.2009 | Transatlantic energy research

The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and the University of Alberta in Canada have announced plans to intensify their research collaboration, particularly in the areas of Energy and Earth and Environment. To mark the occasion, the President of the Helmholtz Association, Prof. Jürgen Mlynek, and the President of the University of Alberta, Prof. Indira Samarasekera, signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
 

10.02.2009 | Energy Bundle

Approximately 70 experts from the field of energy research in Brandenburg and the Berlin region, in addition to invited guests, came together at the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam on 9th and 10th February 2009 for the official start of the programme GeoEnergy (GeoEn). Within this jointly developed project, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the University of Potsdam, and the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus (BTU) aim at a massive promotion of GeoEnergy research in Germany.
 

16.01.2009 | Enhanced Gas Yield and Storage of Greenhouse Gas

Within the framework of the CLEAN-Project the scientific support programme for the injection of CO₂ will be carried out in a sub-field of Europe’s second largest natural gas field in the Altmark. The meeting serves to coordinate research activities between 17 national partners.
 

30.06.2008 | Start of Underground Storage of C0₂ in Ketzin

Today GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences begins with the underground storage of CO₂ in Ketzin.