The future Pan-European Atlas for Sustainable Geo-Energy Capacities. The #GSEU project.

Through a five-year Coordination and Support Action, the new #GSEU (Geological Service for Europe) project, EuroGeoSurveys, and 48 partner organizations from 36 European countries (including both national and regional Geological Survey Organisations - GSO, and associated partners) will deliver a plan for a sustainable Geological Service for Europe to be implemented beyond the 2027 project end. The project will directly support the vision of European Green Deal, focusing on our Earth and what lies within its subsurface, i.e. water, energy, raw materials, and all areas that require subsurface data and expertise. The GSEU’s key objective is to develop and make permanently available pan-European geological data on the already existing European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI) and related information services for the sustainable and safe use of our subsurface and its resources. The project is structured in 9 Working Packages (WP). Its ‘WP3 Geothermal energy & underground storage inventory’ will deliver the named online GIS ‘Pan-European Atlas for Sustainable Geo-Energy Capacities (SGEC)’, a future harmonized and generalized distribution of maps and databases of already known assessed capacity and resource potential, mainly from previous European projects, and supported with additional national and regional information from GSOs, including standardized qualitative and quantitative attributes. This will consider information on geothermal energy resources and subsurface storage capacities for sustainable energy carriers (hydrogen, heat and cold) and sequestration of CO₂. This contribution will present the main objectives, methods and expected results with the publication of the future atlas.