The British Geological Survey (BGS) is conducting a project that aims to leverage its extensive subsurface data and geological expertise to transform existing baseline data into data products that can be useful for the exploitation of shallow geothermal energy for heating buildings.
Through this effort, the goal is to accelerate the deployment and improve the cost-effectiveness of shallow geothermal technologies.
As part of this project, BGS is seeking input from stakeholders on how ground source heat pump (GSHP) and geothermal maps and products are developed and delivered, ensuring the product are fit-for-purpose.
The consultation will help with developing an understanding of the:
- stakeholder’s data requirements across multiple sectors in the shallow geothermal landscape
- market demand for subsurface geothermal information for GSHP
- preferred delivery mechanism of geothermal data for now and in the future
To ensure a diverse range of perspectives, BGS is consulting stakeholders across multiple sectors including heating network utility companies, industrial heat users, the building services sector, housing developers, and value-added resellers of geoscientific information.
This project is made possible by funding awarded from the Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund, run by the Government Office for Technology Transfer and funded by the Department for Science Innovation and Technology. The aim of the fund is to move public sector knowledge assets to identified potential markets.
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Source: BGS
