Geothermal energy: applications

In Ferrara, Italy, you’ll find the perfect example of how geothermal energy can be a green, local, and sustainable solution.

Horticultural company A+G van den Bosch specialises in growing beef tomatoes and is located in Bleiswijk, surrounded by major cities such as The Hague and Rotterdam. Here they started a Dutch first for geothermal heat in 2006.

The city of Reykjavik, with its 122,000 inhabitants, is considered one of the earliest pioneers of district heating using geothermal energy to heat the city.  

Due to the location of Prenzlau (Germany) in the middle of an underground heat basin, conditions here are good for exploring geothermal opportunities. 

Just outside Mol, in the proverbial backyard of VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological Research), this power plant was built as part of a wider scientific study on geothermal heat in Flanders.

Janssen Pharmaceutica in Beerse officially commissioned the geothermal power plant at its site on Turnhoutseweg in October 2023. Janssen is the first company in Flanders to pump hot groundwater at a depth of 2.4 kilometres to supply the Beerse site with the energy it needs.