Travelling to the General Assembly in Klaipeda, Lithuania, was quite a challenge for many participants. But productive sessions and face-to-face encounters on the "working side" as well as good food and even sunshine on the "leisure side" made the journey more than worthwhile.
read moreOn March 11th, a visit of the geothermal power plants of Soultz-sous-Forêts and Rittershoffen was organised by Geo-Energie Suisse SA (GES) and Électricité de Strasbourg Géothermie (ÉSG) for citizens of the Canton Jura, Switzerland, where GES is planning its Haute-Sorne project.
read moreIs soft stimulation worth its effort? Is it wise to use soft stimulation in geothermal exploration from an economical point of view? Which risk factors and uncertainties do we face while performing soft stimulation and how do they affect our project?
read moreOlivier Ejderyan (ETH Zurich) conducted a qualitative media analysis of 115 articles about deep geothermal energy (DGE) in three French-speaking Swiss newspapers within task 3.3 "Risk Governance".
read moreCurrently there are two deep boreholes in Pohang: PX-1 at 4.2 km and PX-2 at 4.3 km. The first and second hydraulic stimulations have been carried out in January and February 2016 in PX-2 and in December 2016 in PX-1.
read moreThe social context of geothermal energy projects matters as participants of the first DESTRESS Workshop on Social Sciences highlighted at the end of January in Strasbourg. A good example is the acceptability of geothermal energy production in the Alsace (France), which is rather high due to positive experiences with extensive oil drilling in the last decades.
read moreIn the framework of the WP3.4, entitled to "Non-standard risk monitoring", teams from the Centre for Early Warning system (CEWS) at GFZ Potsdam and ESG met at the Soultz site on 12 December 2016. After ESG introduced the Soultz-sous-Forêts and Rittershoffen geothermal sites, GFZ presented an overview of their expertise in real-time monitoring capabilities, early warning systems for risk assessment and vulnerability studies.
read moreTo demonstrate the DESTRESS concept, six different sites with access to a reservoir by means of geothermal wells have been chosen. About 9 month after the start of the project, we present here the first status quo report on the demonstration sites.
read moreEarly September, the project leaders and managers as well as the communication and dissemination managers gathered for a workshop on H2020 GeoThermal Research and Innovation Projects in Brussels.
read moreThe wells GRT-1 and GRT-2 drilled in 2012, respectively in 2014, offer a unique opportunity to gather highquality datasets on a deep geothermal system in the Upper Rhine Graben at the transition between the Buntsandstein sandstone and the Palaeozoic granite basement.
read moreDESTRESS is establishing a stakeholder network to facilitate the exchange of good practices and to exploit project results.
read moreStefan Wiemer and Michèle Marti, both Swiss Seismological Service / ETH Zurich, on DESTRESS at the SCCER-SoE-Blog.
read moreOne aim of DESTRESS is to bring together social and economic challenges related to soft stimulation. An initial step for this task is to investigate possible risks: even though soft stimulation aspires to reduce the environmental impact of a reservoir enhancement, not every risk can be excluded.
read more34 people, about a third of the all persons involved in DESTRESS, travelled from various European countries and Korea to Potsdam, Germany, for the first progress meeting in September 2016.
read moreIn July 2016, researchers and experts in geothermal energy from Germany, France, Switzerland and Korea conducted the first DESTRESS stakeholder workshop. In Seoul they discussed recent progresses of different EGS projects.
read moreIn March and July 2016 geochemists, reservoir engineers and rock mechanic experts from GFZ Potsdam visited the site to sample fluids, filter residual and core pieces for analysis in the laboratory.
read moreOn Tuesday, 7th June 2016, Ségolène Royal, the French Minister of the Environment, Energy and Marine Affairs, has inaugurated the brand new Rittershoffen geothermal plant located in Northern Alsace, France.
read moreDESTRESS has started. On Monday, 7th March 2016, the kick-off meeting took place in Utrecht/ in the Netherlands.
read moreDESTRESS will hold a joint project workshop together with the EU-project SURE concerning the stimulation and drilling methods of the geothermal plant in Klaipeda. Furthermore, a site tour to the demonstration plant of GEOTERMA will be offered. Applications until 19 February.
read moreDESTRESS is partly sponsoring the 2nd Schatzalp Workshop on induced seismicity in Davos, Switzerland, between 14 to 17 March 2017. Ernst Huenges, project coordinator of DESTRESS, is one of the distinguised keynote speakers.
read moreDESTRESS will hold a side event for interested stakeholders on Thursday, 22nd September over lunchtime. Learn more about DESTRESS and how you can become a part of it.
read moreOn 1st September 2016, work package and task leaders are meeting in Potsdam, Germany, to review the status quo of the project and accomplished progresses.
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