European Commission

Written by Kim Manunui

Contracting Party:   DG Research & Innovation and DG-Energy, Belgium

Executive Committee Member: Luca Giovannelli, DG Research & Innovation, Directorate Clean Planet – Unit C.2 Clean Energy Transitions, Belgium

Alternate Member:  Drazen Tumara, European Commission – DG Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

The EC is actively supporting geothermal energy through its Framework  Programmes for Research and Innovation.   Significant work programmes are being funded in geothermal energy, in shallow, deep, supercritical and EGS work. The Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) is guiding the work being undertaken. The 2025 report covers off on the many Geothermal programmes that the EC is funding and involved with. 
Geothermal related projects that commenced in 2025 include:

  • GENUS - Doctoral Network on Energy Geostructures Integration: Buildings, Infrastructure and Underground Storage

  • ForMovFluid - Understanding the formation, movement, and host-rock interaction of upper crustal aqueous fluids on Earth, from rock grain to tectonic plate scale

  • EMPOWER - Emerging Two-phase Expansion Power Generation Technology – Unlocking the Potential of Geothermal and Industrial Waste Heat Utilization

  • SIRENS - Seismic noise interferometry for stress analysis

  • HeatSIM - Heat Transport in Fractures and Fracture Networks – Simulation, Inversion, Measurements

  • NOSHAKE - New paradigm fOr forecaSting injection-induced eartHquAKEs

  • ScaleUp - Large-Scale Underground Tank Thermal Energy Storage as a Key Technology for Sustainable District Heating Systems

  • GEOCBC - Harnessing Geothermal water: A Cross-Border Initiative for promoting the use of Renewable Power

  • HeatInvest - Enhancing cluster development and investment readiness of the heat-pumps and geothermal energy European value chain

  • CROSS_HEAT - Joint utilisation of renewable heat sources and heat storage options in an integrated district heating system across borders

  • Water Energy - Analysis of water heat energy potential of alluvial plains in the Romania-Hungary border area

  • Mijnwater scale up Masterplan phase 1

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Kim Manunui

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