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The GeoThermal/GeoEnergy section of the chair of Geology deals with all the topics within the fields of geoenergy, such as geothermics, hydrocarbons, underground storage, etc. Our team focusses on three main areas deep geothermal energy, shallow geothermal energy and reservoir analysis.
We also coordinate the new Joint Degree Master Course GeoThermal/ GeoEnergy which combines the expertise of 8 faculties at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU). Research and teaching are an essential part of the Geothermal-Alliance Bavaria.
The chair of Geology also includes the Isotope Geochemistry/Paleoclimatology branch, Basin Analysis and Sedimentary Provenance.
For the second network meeting in 2025, we were pleased to welcome our partners on October 6th and 7th in Salzburg. On the first day, Salzburg AG for Energy, Transport, and Telecommunications was an excellent host, opening the meeting with an excursion through the GuD Heizkraftwerk Mitte.
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After planning the installations for the SuedLink test sites in 2020 and 2021, the construction of three test fields with several heating simulators which generate the same thermal energy as the underground cables in operation was completed at the end of 2022. The construction phase was a special ch...
Chair of Geology at GeoZentrum Nordbayern, FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg University signed a licensing agreement with Petroleum Experts Ltd. under which Petroleum Experts has donated 10 academic licenses for the Move software suite (https://www.petex.com/products) with commercial value of 1,525,561.89 GBP.
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With a transmission capacity of four gigawatts and its length, the SuedLink, which connects the windy regions of northern Germany with southern Germany, is currently the largest infrastructure project of the energy transition in Germany. The SuedLink project is a cross-border grid expansion project ...
In the area around Birkensee, east of Nuremberg, FAU (AG Oberflächennahe Geothermie) carried out geophysical measurements for the Water Authority of Nuremberg. On the one hand ERT (electrical resistivity tomography) measurements were performed in a campaign in October and completed in a campaign in ...
