Geothermal manufacturing properly Li-2NP, 352.5m deep, produces waters of 73,5 C within the Lithotopos-Iraklia geothermal discipline (Photograph: HSGME)
The municipality of Iraklia in Central Macedonia, Greece has signed a cooperation settlement with HSGME for improvement of the Lithotopos-Iraklia geothermal discipline.
On 6 August 2024, the Municipality of Iraklia and the Hellenic Survey of Geology and Mineral Exploration (HSGME) signed a Memorandum of Cooperation for the exploitation, additional exploration, improvement, monitoring and administration of the Lithotopos-Iraklia low enthalpy geothermal discipline (“geothermal discipline of native curiosity” in response to the brand new Greek geothermal laws) within the Serres Regional Unit.
The municipality of Iraklia holds a 30-year lease (ranging from 17 November 2020) for the exploitation and administration of the Lithotopos-Iraklia geothermal discipline with the proper of unilateral extension of as much as 20 further years topic to the phrases of the lease and environmental safety. The cooperation settlement offers the framework for cooperation between the 2 events for the enterprise of the event of the geothermal discipline, which is anticipated to assist strengthen the native economic system and society.
The Memorandum of Cooperation is legitimate for five years, doesn’t create authorized commitments, and displays the necessity for cooperation between the Municipality of Iraklia and HSGME in geothermal points within the following 5 (5) fundamental axes:
- Cooperation within the improvement, sustainable exploitation, and monitoring of the Lithotopos-Iraklia geothermal discipline;
- Collaboration in additional systematic investigation of the geothermal discipline of Lithotopos-Iraklia geothermal discipline to extend its potential;
- Cooperation and improvement of joint actions for the sustainable administration of the Lithotopos-Iraklia geothermal discipline and guaranteeing the sustainability of the geothermal useful resource;
- Offering scientific info and data on geothermal points, each on the whole and particularly for the Lithotopos-Iraklia geothermal discipline;
- Institution, collectively, of Working Teams consisting of specialists from different Analysis Institutes and/or Greater Training Establishments for the optimum therapy of particular scientific and technical points.
An in depth presentation of the actions that may be developed within the aforementioned axes of the Memorandum of Cooperation in addition to different actions associated to the exploitation of the Lithotopos-Iraklia geothermal discipline will happen in a public open informational occasion deliberate within the close to future.
In keeping with the Press Launch of the Municipality of Iraklia, on the event of the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation, the Mayor of Iraklia Mr. Kleanthis Kotsakiachidis thanks: (a) the Board of Administrators of H.S.G.M.E. and the Director Normal Mr. Dionysios Gkoutis for the approval and signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation, (b) Dr. Apostolos Arvanitis, Head of the Geothermal Division of H.S.G.M.E. for the proposal to conclude the Memorandum of Cooperation and the formation of the axes of this Cooperation, and (c) the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Iraklia for its unanimous choice on July 18, 2024 relating to the conclusion of the Memorandum of Cooperation.
The Memorandum of Cooperation on Geothermal Vitality points between HSGME and the Municipality of Iraklia is the primary Memorandum of Cooperation signed between HSGME and a Municipality that has leased a Geothermal Subject of “native curiosity” (T<= 90 °C). For the primary time and with this exercise, HSGME seeks to provide the likelihood to the Municipality of Iraklia and later and steadily to every Municipality and tenant of Geothermal Potential to know and inform that it’s going to have the scientific assist and steering within the monumental effort for the exploitation and/or administration of a Geothermal Subject.
Supply: Municipality of Iraklia
