Concerted actions to support investments exploiting low-enthalpy geothermal energy

摘要

A brief outline is presented of the project 'Information and support to investors for establishment of plants exploiting geothermal energy' co-financed by the Directorate General for Energy of the European Commission in the context of ALTENER programme for promotion of renewable energy sources. The basic supporting products of this project are: (1) Information Guide on the Geothermal Energy Exploitation Possibilities in Greece: (2) Investment Guide for the Use of Geothermal Energy in Productive Activities in Greece: (3) A convenient and user-friendly software GAIN (Microsoft Access 2.0) for designing and economic evaluation of investments for an 'ideal' geothermal plant . The following steps are executed by GAIN: representation of the entire plant; determination of the size and energy requirements of each respective uses; determination of the type of application installations (heating system); determination of equipment needed for the geothermal plant: series of calculations for economic evaluation. In addition, some organizational measures as training of personnel, demonstration activities, conferences etc. are also foreseen in the programme. (Atomindex citation 28:028710)