Belgium's inspiring Africa-Museum was the stage for the DGE-ROLLOUT partners' exchange with the geological community. An entire session at the Geologica Belgica conference was dedicated to the project. Speakers from the partner countries Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands gave an insight into the aims and status of the project and were pleased with the lively interest of the audience in the question and answer sessions.
Different aspects implemented through and within DGE-ROLLOUT were the cross-border acquisition of 2D-seismic surveys, 3D-modelling of the Kohlenkalk-Group in the subsurface of the transnational area, as well as the development and optimization of new and existing deep geothermal power plants. A major focus of this session was to contribute to the dissemination of the state-of-the-art on deep geothermal energy and to establish transnational collaboration to promote the use of this sustainable and widely available energy resource.
The theme of the conference “Geosciences made in Belgium” opens a forum where Belgian scientists and international colleagues exhibit the wide diversity of their activities, in Belgium and abroad. The conference was held in the Africa-Museum in Tervuren near Brussels.
The speakers:
Fritschle, Tobias
DGE-ROLLOUT - Promoting Deep Geothermal Energy in North-West Europe
Broothaers, Matsen
Deep geothermal energy in the Lower Carboniferous carbonates in the Belgian Campine Basin: current status of the Balmatt project in Mol
Oswald, Thomas
Exploration for Deep Geothermal Energy at the RWE Power Plant Weisweiler, Germany
Passamonti, Arianna
A Fraunhofer demonstrator on a high-temperature heat pump coupled with high-temperature mine thermal energy storage
Van Melle, Timme
Sustainability and renewability of Geothermal Energy
Welsch, Bastian
High-Temperature Medium Deep Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Pilot Plant
Arndt Martin
The Lower Carboniferous geothermal reservoir of the deep subsurface of North Rhine-Westphalia and its border regions: New insights from 3D mapping
