The board of KIVI Hydrocarbon Technologies & Energy Transition is pleased to invite you to the lecture "Geothermal Heat in the Netherlands: Underground and Aboveground Challenges" on Tuesday, 26 November next. The lecture is from 18.00-19.00 hrs, followed by drinks until around 19.30 hrs.

Heat accounts for some 40 per cent of our Dutch energy needs. The government's ambition is to make increasing use of deep geothermal heat for this purpose: a form of 'hot water mining' in which production wells pump hot water from porous rock several kilometres underground, and injection wells pump the cooled water back into the subsurface at other locations. The use of this heat source in the built environment requires the construction of large-scale heat networks.

The two speakers this evening will discuss the technical, economic and organisational aspects of this complex connection between above-ground and underground activities:

  • ir. Paulus Jansen is a former member of the Lower House, former Utrecht alderman and a specialist in heat for the built environment.
  • Prof Jan Dirk Jansen is professor of reservoir technology at TU Delft and a specialist in underground flow and induced seismicity.

Paul and Jan Dirk are both members of the Mining Council, an advisory body that advises the Minister of Climate and Green Growth on technical and social aspects of permit applications for activities in the deep subsurface.

Underground and above-ground elements of the deep geothermal project (2300 m) on the TU Delft campus
Ondergrondse en bovengrondse elementen van het diepe aardwarmteproject (2300 m) op de campus van de TU Delft.