Drilling of two boreholes shall be carried out by Daldrup & Söhne for a deliberate geothermal district heating undertaking in Neuruppin in Brandenburg, Germany.
Daldrup & Söhne AG have obtained a drilling order from Stadtwerke Neuruppin GmbH (SWN) for the drilling of two geothermal wells for a proposed geothermal district heating community undertaking for the city of Neuruppin in Brandenburg, Germany. Drilling is anticipated to begin by the 2nd quarter of 2024.
In early 2023, SWN obtained a grant notification from the Federal Workplace of Economics and Export Management for EUR 10 million to fund the geothermal heating undertaking. This funding will account for about about 40% of the fee for the undertaking that has an estimated price range of EUR 25.5 million.
The drilling order is for 2 geothermal wells, every to a depth of round 2000 meters. Thermal water at temperatures of round 70 °C is anticipated to be extracted from the boreholes. This shall be fed into the present district heating community together with high-temperature warmth pumps. A thermal feed-in capability of 76 GWh per 12 months has been calculated for the undertaking, equivalent to the necessities of round 3000 common four-person households.
“The warmth provide ought to begin in 2027,” mentioned Thoralf Uebach, Managing Director at SWN, throughout a earlier occasion.
Mayor Nico Ruhle factors out that regardless of the very excessive funding prices, the implementation of the geothermal undertaking will in the end present worth stability for the shoppers of SWN and the residents of Neuruppin. Wiebke Papenbrock, Member of the Bundestag, additionally campaigned for the undertaking on the federal stage as described it as a “lighthouse undertaking that can radiate far past Neuruppin.”
The Neuruppin undertaking would be the fourth geothermal heating undertaking within the North German lowlands to be drilled by Daldrup & Söhne following tasks in Schwerin, Hamburg, and Neustadt-Glewe. The subsurface of the North German Plain, comparable to in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg, presents cities and municipalities optimum geological circumstances for utilising geothermal vitality.
Supply: Daldrup & Söhne
