As VP Mayor Hannes Waidbacher announced at his New Year’s reception on Thursday evening, a preliminary study shows the possibility of a new geothermal system on the Austrian side of the supply area. “Based on this, a detailed investigation will be carried out in 2023,” announced the mayor.
Two new holes
The city of Braunau currently has around 890 district heating connections, mainly concentrated in the city center. He sees expansion opportunities for the districts of Haselbach and Laab as well as the industrial area. There are two options: building a new geothermal system in Braunau with two new wells and a new biomass cogeneration plant. Waidbacher is optimistic and emphasized: “In the future, we will not be able to avoid geothermal energy when it comes to supply.”
District heating is currently being extracted in Simbach – the first two wells were drilled in 1999 – successfully. The first cross-border district heating system in Europe was launched. To date, this is the largest cross-border project of its kind in Central Europe. The operators of the district heating system are two companies, the Geothermie-Fördergesellschaft Simbach-Braunau in Simbach and the Geothermie-Wärmegesellschaft Braunau-Simbach in Braunau.
One is still dependent on natural gas for district heating generation (between 25 and 30 percent). Based on the available data from the preliminary study, however, a higher production temperature can be assumed, said Waidbacher. As a result, the use of natural gas in heat generation could be further reduced.
The results of the detailed investigation should be available by the end of 2023. “Depending on the results, the general conditions for a possible expansion such as costs, services and so on can be determined,” said Waidbacher.
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