EGU2020-8091
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-8091
EGU General Assembly 2020
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Slates: a potential rock type to extract geothermal energy from the underground?

Johannes Herrmann1, Erik Rybacki1, Wenxia Wang1, Harald Milsch1, Bianca Wagner2, and Bernd Leiss2
Johannes Herrmann et al.
  • 1GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Geomechanics and Scientific Drilling, Potsdam, Germany (johannes.herrmann@gfz-potsdam.de)
  • 2Geoscience Centre of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen

Commonly used host rock reservoirs for Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) are composed of granite, as they display highly conductive and sustainable fracture networks after stimulation. However, considering the large amount of metamorphic rocks in Europe’s underground, these rock types may also show a large potential to extract geothermal energy from the subsurface. Within the framework of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 initiative ‘MEET (Multi-Sites EGS Demonstration)’, we are conducting fracture permeability experiments at elevated confining pressures, pc, temperatures, T, and differential stresses,

How to cite: Herrmann, J., Rybacki, E., Wang, W., Milsch, H., Wagner, B., and Leiss, B.: Slates: a potential rock type to extract geothermal energy from the underground?, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-8091, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-8091, 2020.

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