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29 Nov 2017

Seasonal underground heat storage can replace coal plants – university

Christian-Albrechts University Kiel

Storing heat underground offers the possibility to replace fossil-powered heating plants, according to a press release by Kiel University on this week’s national symposium on the technology. The potential for underground storage should be used to solve the problem of acceptance, said Green energy minister Robert Habeck, from the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein. The government supports the corresponding research with 6.6 million euros until 2020.  

Read the press release in German here.

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