Speaker
Dr
Dalibor Jovanović
(IRENA - Istrian Regional Energy Agency Ltd.)
Description
The Adriatic Area shows optimal climatic and geological conditions for fully exploit the potentialities of low temperature geothermal energy with Ground-Source Heat Pumps (GSHP) due to presence of medium temperature sedimentary basin across the Western Adriatic shore and the shallow geothermal conditions which characterize the entire Eastern Adriatic Countries. However, in this area the technical expertise and the presence of successful cases are polarized mainly in the north Adriatic and along the Italian shore, whilst the awareness over the benefits of heat pumps, the legislations and - finally - the maturity of the market are still in the early stage.
With around 3 million € of budget, LEGEND “Low Enthalpy Geothermal ENergy Demonstration cases for Energy Efficient building in Adriatic area” is the largest geothermal energy investment project ever financed by the European Union in the Adriatic and Balkan area, through the financial assistance of the IPA CBC Adriatic Programme.
The purpose of the project, coordinated by the Province of Ferrara (IT) and implemented in 11 Adriatic regions of Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia Herzegovina, is to promote the use of shallow geothermal energy, in particular the GSHP technologies, through the conversion of 10 publically owned buildings to use GSHP as the primary energy source for heating and cooling.
The project represents an outstanding example of a cross-border initiative to meet the EU climate and energy targets to 2020 and it is based on a very concrete approach: LEGEND has immediate effects in terms of energy generated by renewables and CO2 reduction, it encourages green-market, technological development and deployment, and public & private investments.
The project runs from October 2012 to December 2014.
More information at: www.legend-geothermalenergy.eu
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Author
Dr
Dalibor Jovanović
(IRENA - Istrian Regional Energy Agency Ltd.)
