GeoEN-Inntal

GeoEN-Inntal deals with the spatial assessment of resources and potential conflicts of geothermal energy in its entire technological spectrum, including small and large-scale applications as well as underground heat storage, using the model region of the eastern Inn Valley (Innsbruck – Kufstein) as an example.

As part of an integrated study of geological, geophysical, and socio-economic conditions in the study area, a better understanding of geothermal applications and their interaction with social and environmental conditions will be achieved. In addition to technical potential, GeoEN-Inntal will examine possible risks and unintended social and environmental impacts of a future intensified use of geothermal energy in the Inn Valley. The findings will serve as the basis for a strategy, to be developed jointly with regional stakeholders, for the sustainable expansion of geothermal energy in the eastern Inn Valley by 2040. To facilitate targeted exchange between research and society, a citizens' advisory board (Geothermal Energy Council) will be established alongside GeoEN-Inntal and will continue to exist after the project's completion.

Cooperation partners are: Klimabündnis Tirol, IKB, TINEXT, Energie Tirol, Stadtwerke Wörgl