This new #Geothermal heating plant is set to start delivering heat to the local #DistrictHeating network this year. With any luck, just in time for the upcoming winter.

Destroying demand for Fossil Gas requires substitution in power generation but also in space heating in particular. It also helps that geothermal resources for the #GeothermalHeatPump are more widespread than for geothermal power.

#Energy
https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/construction-tops-out-on-geothermal-heating-plant-in-hamburg-germany/

Hybrid geothermal heat pump captures solar waste heat at the back of solar panels:
--Will solar panels' efficiency increase due to cooling? Does anyone have data?

#heatpumps #geothermalheatpump #solar
https://www.wired.com/story/heat-pump-maximum-efficiency/