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11NOV 2025
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Soil2Heat network meeting Salzburg
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. Evening event as well as the second day […]
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29MAR 2023
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Ceremonial handover from construction to operation of the SuedLink field investigations regarding high voltage direct current transmission
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 challenge for everyone involved, which we mastered […]
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03FEB 2023
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GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Chair of Geology received donation of Move software licenses
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. MOVE is a powerful tool for integrating and modelling 2D & 3D surface and subsurface data for […]
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26AUG 2022
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Scientific monitoring and field investigations on 3 test fields for HVDC underground cables
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 which high-voltage direct current transmission lines (HVDC) from Brunsbüttel and […]
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22AUG 2022
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Geophysical exploration of the subsurface in the Röthenbach Valley
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 March 2022. Furthermore, Radon within the soil gas was now measured. […]
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24NOV 2021
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Small core soundings on the test site in Aurachtal
The shallow-geothermal working group has carried out the first pedologic investigations on the test site of the Föckersperger company as part of the Vibra-Pflug project. The project from the ZIM cooperation network (Central Innovation Program for SMEs) is dedicated to the development of an attachable vibrating plow for near-surface installation of geothermal ground collectors. The […]
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