Reference Area

The reference area of the project is Hungary, it can be found in the Pannonian Basin among the Alps, Carpathian Mountains and Dinarides. The Pannonian Basin is a young back-arc basin, which was formed by lithosphere stretching, combined with major additional thinning of the subcrustal lithosphere. So due to the raising of the mantle, heat of a considerable quantity has been being accumulated in the crust. The other reason beside the geological one is the fact, that Hungary is well explored, and the geothermal wells are frequent. Otherwise based on the country report, the utilization of the energy resources in Hungary is significantly underdeveloped in spite of the good natural conditions of the country.

Low-entalphy reservoires are well explored and the use of thermal water is very diversified and popular in Hungary, mainly balneologic and agricultural use and geothermal district heating can be found here, but the first geothermla power plant is still missing. The size of the power plants (‘mini’: 0,2-2 MW) has been fitted to the most available high-entalphy resources in Hungary.