Electrocentrale București (ELCEN), one of Romania’s leading producers of thermal and electric energy, has signed a MoU with Sage Geosystems for the carrying out of a feasibility study for the implementation of geothermal technologies in the Bucharest district heating system.
The benefits of this collaboration are aimed at ensuring sustainability, innovation and efficient economic solutions for the future of centralised heating in Bucharest in an approach that is consistent with the national and European energy transition objectives.
Through the MoU, ELCEN will facilitate access to the relevant data and necessary infrastructure in order to carry out the study, and will contribute its technical expertise and specific operational knowledge to the centralised heating system within Bucharest. Sage Geosystems will perform the technical and geological analysis and feasibility study on the geothermal utilisation solution.
The aim of the partnership is to explore how geothermal energy can be implemented within the city the replace a fossil fuel-based thermal plant with a clean alternative. The first project is expected to generate up to 70MW of thermal power for a district in Bucharest, and upon its a success, will be expanded to other Romanian projects and cities.
General Director of ELCEN, Claudiu Crețu, stated, “We signed this Memorandum of Understanding to see how we can use the geothermal potential in the coming years for the heating of Bucharest as efficiently and sustainably as possible in a hybrid approach."
Cindy Taff, CEO and Co-Founder of Sage Geosystems, commented, “Sage is thrilled to be supporting Romania’s transition to clean energy and to introduce geothermal energy applications to its capital city.”
