The Interreg North-West Europe project DGE-ROLLOUT aims to reduce CO2 emissions by replacing fossil fuels through the increased usage of Deep Geothermal Energy (DGE). From October 2018 until October 2023 the project partners from Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands have explored the subsurface of North-West Europe (NWE) in order to characterise potential geothermal reservoirs, and to provide strategies for their accessibility.
In this second part of the final event, which took place on the 29th of June 2023 in Brussels, the recordings of the panel discussion are presented dealing with the need for innovation, financing and the role the EU can play to support geothermal projects in the future.
In the last part of the video, an online application and a decision-making-tool of the project are presented by Ms Estelle Petitclerc (Leader of Workpackage 1 - Mapping and Networking - of the DGE-ROLLOUT project)
Time stamps:
0:00 - Introduction
3:09 - Panel Discussion: The role of EU policy in relation to Deep Geothermal Energy in Europe
12:15 - Statement 1: Geothermal Energy is a fully mature, fully sustainable technology that can be scaled up without any need for innovation.
27:24 - Statement 2: The main problem is money - if DGE is sufficiently publicly funded the market will scale up without further policy requirements.
41:31 - Statement 3: DGE is a local source - therefore it should be managed by local policy and the EU should not get involved.
55:23 - Dr Martin Salamon: Closing remarks
58:42 - Ms Estelle Petitclerc: Presentation of “Easy-to-use End-user-application” and “Decision-making-tool”