It will explore the potential for geothermal energy across Northern Ireland
A £3 million project exploring whether Stormont and CAFRE's Greenmount campus can be heated with geothermal energy, could tackle security of supply issues, decarbonisation and energy costs.
At Greenmount, they will be going deeper as the target reservoir is 1km below the surface - so the drills will reach depths of between 1.5-2km. But before the work can get the go-ahead, environmental scoping exercises and a 3D model to re-risk the subsurface at Greenmount have to be carried out. "We have a roadmap set out now in terms of an Energy Strategy and delivery of this sits very much in the centre of that. We have lots to do across the decarbonisation agenda, and we intend to move ahead as quickly as we can. Projects like this are critically important for a number of reasons. The obvious ones that come to mind are security of supply issues, the importance of decarbonisation and reducing costs.
GeoEnergy NI is being delivered by DfE with scientific support from the GSNI and specialist contractors led by Tetra Tech Europe.
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