The Municipality of Amsterdam, Netherlands, with companions EBN and Vattenfall, are searching for an extra associate for a geothermal heating undertaking.
The Municipality of Amsterdam, Vattenfall, and Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN) have launched a Market Session to gauge curiosity from potential companions for a geothermal heating undertaking in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Extra particularly, the events want to develop the collaboration with an operator.
The Market Session is an preliminary step for an official tender deliberate for 2025. The Market Session paperwork have been posted on the Mercell platform, via which events can also take part. The decision ends on 1 December 2024.
This Market Session has a number of targets:
- To tell the market of the supposed tender for the enlargement of the cooperation;
- To gauge curiosity on this collaboration;
- To achieve perception into the chances and ambitions of market events with regard to the precise necessities and targets relevant to the tender.
The knowledge obtained from this section can be used to arrange the tender paperwork. The Market Session is with out obligation for all of the events concerned, and participation doesn’t put market events in a favoured or disfavored place when tendering.
Particulars of the undertaking
The undertaking considerations the Mining Allow Geothermal Search Space Amsterdam-Amstelveen 1 that was assigned to the companions efficient January 2023 and has a time period of 4(+1) years. The goal of the companions is to develop geothermal sources for the additional sustainability of the heating networks within the Amsterdam area.
Based mostly on the accessible subsurface information (seismic and nicely information) together with the warmth demand, the preliminary focus of the feasibility research for this lies within the southeastern a part of the allow space; the sub-area “Amstelland”. An preliminary tough plan has been drawn up for the “Amstelland” undertaking with the target of getting the primary geothermal supply operational in 2030.
The cooperation between the municipality of Amsterdam, Vattenfall and EBN initially considerations the feasibility section. This section is anticipated to final till mid-2026. The following step for this section of the undertaking is the acquisition of seismic information in Amstelland, which is already within the planning section and is anticipated to begin within the spring of 2025.
Supply: Geothermie Nederland and Mercell