Here you will find the news archive of the GeoHEAT website:

July 2025: GeoHEAT organized its first General Assembly: Around 2/3 of the project team members met at the università di pisa. Most of our work packages have already started and are on the right track. 

June 2025: In Thurgau a wide range of data is being collected to identify areas with optimal conditions. This includes, among other aspects, information about transmission lines, roads, protected areas, terrain slopes, cost of electricity, available local infrastructure, energy demand as well as the geothermal conditions. Each of these aspects is now represented in a separate map. Combined with additional information, this will form the basis for further exploration.

May 2025: In the context of the regional scale assessment of GeoHEAT, Arnaud Mignan has developed a Python code to map the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) and optimise geothermal plant siting. So far only available to the project partners, the map computation, meta-model documentation and tutorial will be made public at a later stage of the project. On LinkedIn you can get a glimpse into some of the results, represented on an interactive map of Thurgau, Switzerland.

May 2025: GeoHEAT on EGU: The EGU General Assembly brings together geoscientists from all over the world. Our experts presented new developments in geothermal exploration. We are going to make geothermal exploration easier, cheaper and less risky!  

March 2025: Team member Nils Kerkmann was honored by the German Geophysical Association (DGG) for his new and more convenient approach to identifying the permittivity of rock cuttings: A sample is scanned first using computed tomography. These images are then segmented by assigning different phases to the gray-scale intensities of the scanned sample. After deducing a digital twin, the model can be used to calculate the effective permittivity using a numerical solving algorithm.

March 2025: The field campaign in Thurgau, Switzerland has kicked off on the 3th of March. Eight colleagues from GeoHEAT and four volunteers set up 300 nodal seismic sensors across the Canton. The teams covered about 900 km². At the beginning of April the sensors will be collected and then the team will start analyzing the data.

Oktober 2024: A core component of GeoHEAT is to develop a borehole radar tool that can function at high temperatures and pressures typical of deep geothermal reservoirs. Our first step is to design a low-temperature prototype to test several design novelties that goes into the tool. The overall system layout of this prototype is now completed.

September 2024: We have started our LinkedIn channel. Visit us on LinkedIn!

August 2024: Kick-off meeting in Airolo. Here is the the link to the related LinkedIn-post of Edoardo Pezzulli

June 2024: Official start of the project (4 years).