The team

FindHeat brings together long-standing expertise and innovation from industry and academia, covering geology, geophysics, engineering, social science, economics, communication, and technical training.

The industry partners of the consortium (Électricité de Strasbourg, Reykjavik Energy, Repsol Exploración, TRACS Ltd, Delft Inversion) are direct end users of the FindHeat platform and will exploit the results in their daily operations.

Delft University of Technology

TUD is the project coordinator (Prof S Geiger manages the overall project) and leads WP5 and WP7. TUD brings extensive expertise in geological modelling, fracture characterisation, uncertainty quantification, economics, and social science. TUD co-owns the Dutch use case.

TRACS International Ltd.

TRS is the WP leader of WP4. TRS brings thirty years of expertise in developing and delivering tailored training materials for international audiences with diverse backgrounds, having trained over 50,000 experts in geology, engineering, economics, and law in over 45 countries.

Électricité de Strasbourg

ESG is the leader of WP6. ESG has pioneered geothermal energy in medium-enthalpy basement geothermal resources that has led to a paradigm shift how to develop these resources. ESG provides data for use cases in France and brings a wealth of operational experience.

Repsol Exploración

RPL is an integrated energy company with extensive experience in large-scale subsurface energy project. RPL has an ongoing line of activity for geothermal energy opportunities evaluation, which supports its strategy towards achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

Delft Inversion

DIN is a technology provider that has pioneered a seismic inversion technique (WEB-AVO) that significantly enhances the information content in legacy seismic data and has resulted in a demonstrable increase in drilling productive wells in oil and gas applications.

Charles University

CUP conducts research on fault and fracture characterisation in basement geothermal resources, geophysical exploration, and develops the Czech use case together with CGS.

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule

ETH is the leader of WP2 and provides long-standing extensive experience in (conceptual) modelling of volcanic geothermal resources, including developing unique simulation capabilities for high-enthalpy and superhot geothermal systems.

Reykjavik Energy

Reykjavik Energy (OR) is the leader of WP3. OR has pioneered the development of high-enthalpy volcanic geothermal resources and provides data and operational experience for the use cases in Iceland.

Imperial College London

ICL is the leader of WP1 and brings extensive expertise in geological characterisation, geological modelling, and simulating flow processes for subsurface energy applications. ICL provides data for the UK use cases.

Czech Geol. Survey

CGS develops the Czech use case with CUP and is conducting research to improve the characterisation of low-enthalpy basement and sedimentary geothermal resources.

University of Cologne

UC has developed novel EMT 3D modelling and inversion techniques that provide more reliable estimates for the location and extent of the heat source and potential fluid flow paths.

FINDHEAT is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101147171.

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