MUSE

Managing Urban Shallow geothermal Energy (MUSE)
2018
MUSE develops a comprehensive and integrated set of methods, concepts and strategies allowing for local-scale management of shallow geothermal energy in European urban areas, which can later be applied by other organisations in other European cities.
Project logo of the GeoERA Project MUSE
MUSE investigates resources and possible conflicts of use associated with the use of shallow geothermal energy in European urban areas and delivers key geoscientific subsurface data to stakeholders via a user-friendly web based GeoERA information platform. The assessment of geothermal resources and conflicts of use will lead to the development of management strategies considering both efficient planning and monitoring of environmental impacts to feed into general framework strategies of cities like Sustainable Energy Action Plans. The developed methods and approaches will be tested and evaluated together with input from local stakeholders in 14 urban pilot areas across Europe, representative for different conditions of shallow geothermal energy use. The pilot areas are geologically and climatologically diverse and have a range of heating and cooling degree day characteristics, making the project outcomes and shared learnings relevant to the whole of Europe and beyond. In MUSE, we want to address all relevant aspects by capitalising upon existing knowledge, identifying and closing specific knowledge gaps and providing joint proposals on methodologies, criteria and concepts on shallow geothermal energy management. We adapt workflows to focus on local scale investigations suitable for densely-populated urban areas, where national heating and cooling demand is generally highest, and which will represent the most important shallow geothermal energy market in the future. The outcomes of the project represent a comprehensive collection of methods, approaches and tools, which can be transferred to other urban regions in Europe and adapted by other organisations.
Project partners:
» Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, United Kingdom)
» Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC, Catalonia)
» Hrvatski geološki institut - Croatian Geological Survey (HGI-CGS, Croatia)
» Czech Geological Survey (CGS, Czech Republic)
» Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM, France)
» Geological Survey Ireland (GSI, Ireland)
» Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences – Geological Survey of Belgium (RBINS-GSB, Belgium)
» Geološki Zavod Slovenije (GeoZS, Slovenia)
» Instituto Geologico y Minero de España (IGME, Spain)
» Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning (SGU, Sweden)
» Geological Survey of the Netherlands (TNO, Netherlands)
» Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute (PGI-NRI, Poland)
» State Geological Institute of Dionyz Stur (SGIDS, Slovakia)
» GeoInform of Ukraine (State Geological and Subsurface Survey of Ukraine)
» Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS, Denmark)
Projectfacts
Project titleManaging Urban Shallow geothermal Energy (MUSE)
Project acronymMUSE
Project short titleManaging Urban Shallow geothermal Energy (MUSE)
Project managerGregor Götzl
Project members Cornelia Steiner, Clarice Pierri, MSc. Doris Rupprecht
DepartmentHydrogeology & Geothermics
Period of time01.07.18 - 01.07.21
FinancingEuropean Union