Industrial property developer P3 has invested on a geothermal warmth storage system at a warehouse area in Rouen, France.
European trade property developer P3 has applied a pilot geothermal heating challenge within the warehouse area of La Poste Immobilier within the P3 Rouen brownfield web site in Rouen, France. The geothermal system now gives 77% of the warmth used within the new constructing, with the stability equipped by an air-source warmth pump.
For this progressive challenge, P3 employed power effectivity professional Accenta to drill 200-meter boreholes on the web site of P3 Rouen constructing. The Boreholes Thermal Vitality Storage (BTES) system shops waste warmth throughout summer time and provides this warmth utilizing probes throughout winter. The system shops and provides power for heating or cooling with a most geothermal output of roughly 365 kW.
“We needed to be progressive on this challenge as a result of the brand new property has excessive heating necessities. We went down the route of minimising the environmental impression and decreasing the CO2 emissions related to heating the constructing by round 90%. There was an extended and detailed planning course of in shut collaboration with our buyer and we’re proud to have confirmed that there’s a case for utilizing sustainable geothermal heating within the logistics sector,” mentioned Nicolas Camus, Head of Development at P3 France.
P3 is conscious of the challenges of creating geothermal tasks, specifically the excessive preliminary prices the inherent improvement dangers to industrial customers. The success of the pilot challenge at P3 Rouen might assist make geothermal a extra engaging choice for tenants, because it gives information to assist in decision-making.
“What we actually want is information. Solely then will it’s attainable to find out whether or not to implement geothermal power elsewhere within the portfolio,” confirmed Tomas Kubín, P3’s Director of Improvement for Central, Jap and Western Europe. “Knowledge is the place to begin for any expertise that we predict might be helpful, and a pilot challenge just like the one at P3 Rouen will present us with it.”
France is taken into account one of many pioneers of geothermal heating in Europe. Geothermal gives heating for a lot of elements of the Larger Paris space, in addition to in important amenities just like the Orly Airport and the Athletes’ Village for the 2024 Olympics.
Supply: CIJ Europe
