EUROPEAN PROJECTS ➤ Interreg Europe ➤ GEO.POWER
Geothermal energy to address energy performance strategies in residential and industrial buildings
| Project duration | 01/11/2010 – 31/10/2012 |
| CRES budget | 172.100 € |
| Website | http://geopower-i4c.eu |
The general objective of GEO.POWER project is to exchange best practices related to low enthalpy energy supply and to prepare the ground to the transfer some of the selected best practices within the Mainstreaming Programmes of the regions participating into the project during the current programming period 2007-13.
Moreover the project through its actions aims at:
- the future supporting of regional and legal/regulatory framework instruments
- increasing awareness and improving knowledge
- better understanding of the merits and benefits of geothermal pumps (GSHP)
- the future mass attracting of investments on GSHP field and investors to the green economy
GEO.POWER capitalizes experiences coming from the major EU projects in the field of low enthalpy geothermal and technological applications ( GROUND REACH, GROUNDHIT, Ground-Med, LOW-BIN). By means of a pool of best practices on GSHP applications developed in the last years, all partners and local delegation of experts & stakeholders go through an evaluation of the best practices reproducibility potential in each recipients region, according to technical, economical and environmental parameters, in order to design the optimum performance conditions for G HP systems and the capacity to fit with the territorial context.
The main results of the project are the development of one action plan per each involved region that provides an organized set of legal/regulatory, economical and technical / technical and best-technological proposals that - through the inclusion into the regional operation programmes - address long-term investments strategy for GSHP application at wide scale.
The project co-financed by the EU program INTERREG IVC (number of contract: 0992C3), is coordinated by the Province of Ferrara (Italy), participating public entities from 8 Countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Sweden, Estonia, UK and Belgium) that are dealing ( in different level) with the attainment of European policy objectives in relation with Kyoto targets (20/20/20) and the EU Building Performance Directive, 2002/91/EC.