About GeoCom

Geothermal resources are one of the least known renewable energy resources despite of the fact that both their potential and engineering qualities are among the best of RESs. In the meantime, Central-Eastern European countries (new EU members as well as Western Balkan states) have exceptional geothermal reserves although the traditional investment-heavy procedures are difficult to apply in these countries. The innovative solutions and demonstration actions proposed in the GeoCom project provides a new opportunity for these markets and Europe as a whole.

The Geothermal Communities project lines up the best available technologies in the use of geothermal energy combined with innovative energy-efficiency measures and integration of other renewable energy sources at three different pilot sites (Hungary, Slovakia and Italy).

In addition to the demonstration component through the parallel implementation of three ambitious development works there is also a strong complementary component of research focusing on making geothermal projects more cost efficient and technologically sound.

Furthermore the project will integrate a number of cities as project partners (from Serbia, Romania, Poland and fYRoM) which either already have ongoing geothermal systems in the need of adopting new technologies or would like to implement new systems from scratch aided by the project's results.

GeoCom is a project of the CONCERTO initiative co-funded by the EC within the FP7.