EU can tap geothermal potential to cut Russian gas - EGEC

The European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC) has calculated that the EU can reduce its use of Russian gas by 3 billion cubic metres (bcm) this year with the help of geothermal district heating and cooling and geothermal heat pumps, and the potential for further gas demand reductions is significant.

On Tuesday, the council released an eight-point plan to REpowerEU with geothermal energy, pointing out that geothermal heating, cooling and power have already helped avoid 10 bcm of gas and other fossil energy imports from Russia.

The table below contains EGEC’s expectations of how much Russian gas could be replaced by geothermal energy.

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