Research
A closer look at Enabling Technologies
The Push-It project not only works on site to create UTES systems. It also develops enabling technologies to make it easier to create and implement those systems.
April 24, 2025
News
Development & Realisation
Cleaning and casing of the hydrogeological borehole
As part of the Push-It project, a new hydrogeological borehole at Litoměřice has been established to monitor groundwater flow and quality. Located at a future site for underground heat storage, the borehole will play a key role in observing groundwater velocity, flow direction, and chemical composition at depths ranging from 100 to 400 meters.
April 18, 2025
Development & Realisation
Drilling of a hyrogeological borehole
Vit Peresty takes us through the drilling of a hydrogeological borehole at the RINGEN research center at Litoměřice.
April 18, 2025
Development & Realisation
Drill core scanning and geothermic measurements
A cored borehole is currently being drilled on the RINGEN research center site, which will provide rock samples from depths ranging from the surface to 550m. Their analysis and geophysical measurements directly in the borehole will provide valuable information for planning underground heat storage in boreholes of various depths.
April 9, 2025
Development & Realisation
Level and temperature logs taken at United Downs
Over the last months, two types of logs have been performed on the site in United Downs. Level loggers have been installed in some mine shafts and temperature logs have been performed.
April 9, 2025
Governance
Regulatory perspectives on UTES
One of the key challenges faced by the PUSH-IT project is the complex regulatory landscape for High Temperature Underground Thermal Energy Storage (HT-UTES) technologies. This varies significantly across different countries. PUSH IT aims to identify and compile key regulations, evaluate their effectiveness and propose guidelines for a more effective and proportionate regulatory approach. This will help streamline the permitting process and accelerate the deployment of geothermal storage projects.
March 31, 2025
Research
Meet the Scientists: Tessel Grubben and Alexis Koulidis
In this edition of Meet the Scientists we interview Tessel Grubben, PhD candidate, and Alexis Koulidis, post-doctoral researcher, both at TU Delft. Tessel and Alexis focus on well construction.
March 27, 2025
Engagement
The potential of BTES: Borehole Thermal Energy Storage System, developed at TU Darmstadt
Professor Igno Sass, a hydrogeologist and process engineer at the Technical University of Darmstadt, explains about the groundbreaking BTES-project to develop a deep, high-temperature heat storage system in Darmstad, as part of the larger European Push-it project.
March 17, 2025
Engagement
PUSH-IT at the BEOS conference
Our researcher Elke Mugova from the MTES pilot site in Bochum attended the BEOS conference (Business of Energy Opportunities Show) in London, where she gained valuable insights that will benefit our ongoing efforts in the PUSH-IT project.
March 13, 2025
PUSH-IT is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101096566.
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