Projects

The project ‘MiMo: Misi Monitoring’ is a collaborative mission to foster scientific collaboration in the field of geothermal energy between Indonesia and the Netherlands. Both social and technical challenges have caused a slow-down in growth of geothermal energy development in many parts of the world in recent years.

Induced seismicity poses a tremendous challenge to future deep geothermal energy exploitation. The large international and multidisciplinary EC GEOTHERMICA DEEP project combines innovation in sensors and data analysis with demonstration and knowledge transfer activities into one coherent work program that will have a profound impact on de-risking future EGS projects.

‘TDECB’ is short for Tanzania Dutch Energy Capacity Building Project. This project aims to strengthen the capacity of post-secondary education and vocational training institutes. This way technical, international and domestic challenges related to renewable energy and the gas sector are easier to address.

The efficiency of geothermal utilisation depends on the behaviour of fluids that transfer heat between the geosphere and the engineered components of a power plant. REFLECT aims to prevent problems related to fluid chemistry rather than treat them. The physical and chemical fluid properties are often poorly defined, as in situ sampling and measurements at extreme conditions are difficult to date.

A consortium of partners from the Netherlands, UK, Turkey, Italy and Iceland investigate and demonstrate the potential of re-injecting CO2 into geothermal fields. This consortium program provides the geothermal energy sector with the means to address the climate change challenge through CO2 utilization and storage.

DESTRESS is a Horizon 2020-supported project (2016-2021) and brings together an international consortium comprising 16 partner institutions from six countries in Europe as well as South Korea. DESTRESS demonstrates methods to create and operate enhanced geothermal systems (EGS).

The ‘EASYGO: Efficiency and Safety in Geothermal Operations’ project is one of the Innovative Training Networks (ITN) within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions funded by the EU. ITNs are meant for extraordinary global research as well as excellent training opportunities for PhD candidates to reach doctorate level.

The objective of the Circextin consortium is to create a strategic education partnership between universities and companies developing a comprehensive training platform. This platform will help to modify existing study programs related to extractive industry and incorporate a geo-circular economical approach to geo-energy, mining and storage activities.

The Geothermal Capacity Building Programme - Indonesia-Netherlands (GEOCAP) was an international collaboration between Indonesian and Dutch entities (2014-2018) with the goal to develop intimately linked geothermal programmes for education and training, research and subsurface databases at universities across Indonesia.