Parts of Belgrade to use geothermal energy for heating – Belgrade Power Plants commissioning additional explorations in three locations

The PUE Belgrade Power Plants has opened the tender for phase three of the scientific studies of the geothermal potential of the ground water resources in the territory of the heating plants and boiler rooms within this company.

In the previous period, in phase one, the potentials of the exploitation of the geothermal resources in twenty-two selected heating plants and boiler rooms were considered, in line with the estimated depth of the geothermal reservoirs, the temperature and the estimated quantities of the geothermal waters. The analysis also included the locations planned for the construction of new heating plants, and as said, of the total number of the analyzed locations, three locations have been selected as the most promising for detailed explorations with the end goal of defining the location and the conditions for the establishment of the first geothermal exploration borehole.

Detailed exploration within phase two were carried out in the locations: Heating Plant Batajnica, Heating Plant Borca and Heating Plant Dunav. In all three locations, according to the tendering documentation, potential conditions for the exploitation of geothermal resources in the energy, technical-technological and economic senses have been determined.

– The result of the detailed and, by their scope, multidisciplinary explorations is a conceptual prognosis model of the exploitation of the geothermal resources – says the technical specification.

In phase three, as said, it is necessary to verify, recalibrate and amend the conceptual prognosis model of the exploitation of the geothermal resources. In relation to that, it is necessary to encompass, collect, process and interpret a large number of field data, that is, to organize and establish field exploration activities by implementing suitable field and laboratory methods.

– The collected data need to be analyzed from the aspect of the interpretation of the geothermal conditions and the geological composition of the part of the terrain in which the explorations are to be done – it says.

Bids may be submitted by June 24, and more details (in Serbian) can be found HERE.

In March this year, Vanja Vukic, the director of the Belgrade Power Plants, stated that the PUE Belgrade Power Plants, together with the Faculty of Mining and Geology, was exploring the geothermal resources in the locations of the Belgrade heating plants and that the preliminary results had shown that, in several locations, there was the possibility of the use of geothermal resources as energy sources, so the intention was for them to be implemented in the heating plants Borca, Batajnica and Dunav in the future.

I. Z.

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