| Summary: | The Geothermal ERA NET has brought together and analysed the status and the policiesconcerning geothermal energy in its participating countries, including Slovenia, that hasjoined in as an associated partner in a later stage. The report is split between Part A Analysis and Part B Questionnaires. Part A is thecurrent report and is publicly available. Part B contains the questionnaires of all countries.Please contact the relevant country contact(s) (see Appendix 1) if you want to use these. The Geothermal ERA NET focuses on direct use and higher enthalpy uses of geothermalenergy. The consortium does not consider shallow geothermal energy for geothermal heatpumps, which is a different market with its own characteristics and challenges. Geothermal energy utilisation accounts for 66% of energy utilisation in Iceland, and onecould say that the potential that this energy source holds for this country is largelydeployed. Italy also has a significant geothermal production. It ranks as fifth country in the world for geothermal electricity production. After Turkey, Iceland and Italy, Hungaryis ranked at 4th place regarding installed geothermal direct use in Europe. For all otherparticipating countries, geothermal energy is an energy source with potential. With the exception of Iceland, all countries have an ambitious agenda for an increase ofthe market for geothermal energy. In all countries except for the Netherlands andSlovenia, this includes a significant growth in electricity production with geothermal energy. Up to 2020, the Netherlands will focus on direct use. In all participating countries, there are policy instruments in place to forward geothermal energy utilisation. This includes R&D efforts, but in some countries, there are alsoinstruments to address the geological risk in the form of soft loans or guarantee funds. Also, most participating countries have a feed-in-tariff in place, for renewable energyproduction. Often, this tariff is only applicable to electricity generation, but in France andthe ...
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