‘Urgent change in policy needed for geothermal energy resources to be tapped’
A lack of exploration and mapping means the number of high heat geothermal reserves in Ireland is not well known, according to a new Oireachtas report
Ireland’s policy environment needs to rapidly change if zero-carbon geothermal energy resources are to be used in the energy transition, according to a new Oireachtas report.
Geothermal energy is energy that is stored in solid earth in the form of heat. There is both low-heat or “shallow” geothermal energy, which is moderate heat stored in shallow rock that can be used for heating buildings through ground source heat pumps, or high-heat “deep” geothermal energy, which ...