Geothermal Energy open up a new business adventure

A field in Vestsalling save on large amounts of hot water underground. There just pierced hole, the clutch some pipes and the adventure can start.

Skive Geothermal A/S will soon make a test drilling at a field near Rodding. Drilling must tell citizens and businesses in Skive can get cheap and sustainable heat from underground.

A short snippet from Salling showing where to drill

If things go as GEUS (on GEUS) predicts that there is heating to at least 100 years in the underground - and more. Probably not let up, because the Earth will continue to heat up the water. And calculations show that there will be plenty of hot water for other adventures.

In the future, citizens and businesses in Skive get cheap heat from the new source. And they can thus be equated with citizens in both Paris, Copenhagen and Thisted.

Expensive - but there is much to save

It costs money to drill, dig pipe down and establish a pump system, but from day one the price will be cheaper than the production cost, the current plant has. And unlike other energy sources, the price of geothermal heat does not increase with time.

A transmission should receive profits from energy companies and power plants, but also provide the basic heat needed for heating plants and other industries. The transmission network means consumers can save up to 30 million. DKK per year - equivalent to 2-3000 kr. household.

The original plan was to build the transmission network in stages, but the plan has now been dropped and the entire system is now being built at the same time.

You can use hot water for much
When it comes to heating, the hot water from the depths will be used in a heat exchanger that warms up the water from the distict heating. When the water comes back, it has a temperature of approx. 40 degrees. The utilization of this water can be the first opportunity in this new adventure.

 Illustration of a geothermal plant. The hot geothermal water is pumped through a heat exchanger and heat up the water from the district heating. Here after the cold geothermal is pumped back in ground again.

Maybe there is money in fish or live food production onshore in large vats. Maybe it's all about sushi seaweed or seaweed for cosmetics. Or will it be an idea with new cheap greenhouses.

The salty water from the reservoir can also be used directly as they  do in a spa in Læsø. Maybe there is a basis for building a new spa / holiday with new forms of wellness and natural beauty of the Limfjord coast.