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A new report suggests that even partial deployment could ease pressure on India’s power system while supporting data centres, manufacturing and urban cooling, with the Tapri cold storage project already under development.
A new study has identified geothermal energy as a possibly significant contributor to India’s future power, manufacturing heat and cooling demand, with technical possible estimated at 450GW of electricity generation, greater than 1.5TW of cooling capacity and 11TW of manufacturing heat.
It noted that the nascent sector would draw on oil and gaseous expertise, as well as the opportunities presented by well repurposing and regulatory similarities between the oil and gaseous and geothermal energy sectors.
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The report, the Future of Geothermal in India, was published by Project InnerSpace in partnership with the Council on Energy, ecological stability and aquatic environments (CEEW).
Its findings suggest that even partial deployment of geothermal systems could minimize pressure on India’s electricity network while diversifying energy supply to rapidly growing manufacturing and urban sectors.
It pointed to improvements in drilling technologies, better subsurface mapping and India’s recently introduced National Policy on Geothermal Energy as factors that have improved the prospects to commercial-scale research.
While India has explored geothermal resources intermittently to decades, progress has remained largely confined to pilot projects because of exploration risks, uncertain drilling outcomes and limited policy support.
The study said that operators are looking to geothermal to meet rising demand from data centres, manufacturing and urban cooling, at a time when India’s electricity consumption and atmosphere-conditioning consumption are rising sharply.
Unlike solar and wind generation, geothermal systems can provide continuous baseload energy independent of weather conditions.
Researchers identified Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal as states with strong geothermal deployment possible. They noted that these locations “possess both subsurface data and technical expertise stemming from decades of oil, gaseous and mining activity”.
One project already under research is the Tapri Geothermal Cold Storage Project in Himachal Pradesh, supported by Project InnerSpace’s GeoFund initiative.
Jamie Beard, executive director of Project InnerSpace, described manufacturing heat and cooling as “low hanging fruit” to geothermal deployment, while the CEEW’s Karthik Ganesan said greater energy diversity would be essential as India expands its clean energy system.
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