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MUSE - Managing Urban Shallow geothermal Energy. A GeoERA geo-energy project

The MUSE project (http://geoera.eu/projects/muse/) is one of 15 awarded project proposals under the H2020 GeoERA program that will be implemented from July 2018 to June 2021. GeoERA (Establishing the European Geological Surveys Research Area to deliver a Geological Service for Europe) is the largest European research programme in the field of geoscience, co-funded by the European Commission via ERA-NET Cofund action in the scope of Horizon 2020. The MUSE project itself focuses on shallow geothermal energy (SGE) in European urban areas. A group of 16 geological survey organisations from the EU member states and associated countries are involved in the project. MUSE addresses the investigation of resources and possible conflicts of use and will deliver key geoscientific subsurface data to stakeholders via a user-friendly web based GeoERA Information Platform Project (GIP-P). The assessment of geothermal resources and conflicts of use will lead to the development of management strategies considering both efficient planning and monitoring of environmental impacts to feed into the general framework strategies of cities such as Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs). The developed methods and approaches will be tested and evaluated together with input from local stakeholders in 14 urban pilot areas. The pilot city regions are geologically and climatologically diverse and have a varying range of heating and cooling degree-day characteristics, making the project outputs and shared learnings relevant across Europe and elsewhere. MUSE will adapt workflows to focus on local scale investigations suitable for densely-populated urban areas, where national heating and cooling demand is generally highest, and which might represent the most important SGE market in the future. The outcomes of the project will represent a comprehensive collection of methods, approaches and tools that could be transferred to other urban regions in Europe and adapted by other organisations.

GeoERA ; MUSE ; GIP-P ; shallow geothermal energy (SGE) ; management ; resources ; conflicts

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