MEET

MEET’s goal is to make geothermal energy more accessible by reducing the initial investment costs for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) wells. An EGS is a man-made reservoir, created where there is hot rock but insufficient or little natural permeability or fluid saturation. Fluid is injected into the subsurface where the hot rock heats it up so that electricity can be generated once it’s back on the surface. Technological advances allow us to tap into a largely unused source of renewable energy without excessive costs, worldwide.

​MEET will then test the viability of EGS with electric and thermal power generation in the main geological environments: crystalline, sedimentary, metamorphic, and volcanic with the purpose of mapping the most promising sites for EGS installations and to boost geothermal power’s market penetration in Europe.