Announcements

After planning the installations for the SuedLink test sites in 2020 and 2021, the construction of three test fields with several heating simulators which generate the same thermal energy as the underground cables in operation was completed at the end of 2022. The construction phase was a special ch...

With a transmission capacity of four gigawatts and its length, the SuedLink, which connects the windy regions of northern Germany with southern Germany, is currently the largest infrastructure project of the energy transition in Germany. The SuedLink project is a cross-border grid expansion project ...

In the area around Birkensee, east of Nuremberg, FAU (AG Oberflächennahe Geothermie) carried out geophysical measurements for the Water Authority of Nuremberg. On the one hand ERT (electrical resistivity tomography) measurements were performed in a campaign in October and completed in a campaign in ...

The shallow-geothermal working group has carried out the first pedologic investigations on the test site of the Föckersperger company as part of the Vibra-Pflug project. The project from the ZIM cooperation network (Central Innovation Program for SMEs) is dedicated to the development of an attachab...

The installation of the sensors on the 'Wichelkoppeln' in Schleswig as part of the ErdEisII project has now been completed by the FAU. The goal of the research project ErdEisII is the development and implementation of a soil-ice storage system which constitutes both, a source for heating and for ...

In the context of the KNW-Opt research project the area with a special horizontal heat exchanger installed - located in Bad Nauheim - is geologically and pedologically investigated by the very shallow geothermal working group of the GeoZentrum Nordbayern. This double layered heat exchanger is used f...

The lecturers Dr. Johannes Stegner (TenneT TSO GmbH) and Dr. David Bertermann (GeoCentre of Northern Bavaria) introduced the for geologists and soil scientists relevant ground depending coherences and project structures of a major project in the course of energy change, the high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission project SuedLink.

The Austrian project GEL-SEP "Spatial Energy Planning for Heat Transition" is part of the research initiative "Green Energy Lab". The aim of the project is to elaborate the potentials of different renewable heat sources, including very shallow geothermal energy, and to present them in the ‘HEATatlas...

The Chair of Geology at GeoZentrum Nordbayern, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg signed a licensing agreement with Petroleum Experts Ltd. under which Petroleum Experts has donated 10 academic licenses for the Move software suite (https://www.petex.com/products) with a commercial value of 1,409,059.98 GBP. MO...