| Title | History of International Geothermal Power Plants and Geothermal Projects in Germany |
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| Authors | Hubert Quick, Joachim Michael, Heiko Huber |
| Year | 2010 |
| Conference | World Geothermal Congress |
| Keywords | Outstanding projects, geothermal reference building projects, geothermal power plants, ORC, Kalina-cycle, field of borehole heat exchangers, earth affected structures, groundwater heat storage |
| Abstract | With increasing concerns of global warming, green energy sources are becoming more important. The development of geothermal energy applications as a part of Germany’s renewable energy portfolio is a multidimensional process with fast growing improvements. Information regarding geothermal energy applications and actual improvements is given in this paper. Geothermal basic principles needed for application oriented improvements are shown. Geological, hydrogeological and geothermal parameters and future methods of their determination are discussed. On the basis of these principles, the geothermal aspects of German reference building projects (outstanding shallow geothermal projects) and the latest German geothermal power plants (outstanding deep geothermal projects) are discribed. |