European Geothermal Congress 2019 Den Haag, The Netherlands, 11-14 June 2019 Geothermal Energy Use, Country Update for Italy Adele Manzella1, Davide Serra2, Gabriele Cesari3, Eleonora Bargiacchi1, Maurizio Cei2, Paolo Cerutti3, Paolo Conti1, Geoffrey Giudetti2, Mirco Lupi2, Maurizio Vaccaro1, 1 UGI – Italian Geothermal Union, c/o University of Pisa-DESTEC, Largo Lazzarino 2, 56122 Pisa, Italy 2 Enel Green Power, via Andrea Pisano, 120, 56122 Pisa, Italy 3ANIGHP – National Association of Geothermal Heat Pump, via Quintino Sella 23, 00187, Roma, Italy
[email protected] Keywords: Electricity generation, Thermal uses, temperature systems tend to be in tectonically active District heating, Geothermal heat pumps, Thermal regions either in volcanic and intrusive or fault- balneology, Agricultural applications, Fish farming, controlled systems (Santilano et al., 2015 and ref. Industrial processes, Development, Market, Support therein). measures. Electricity from geothermal resources nowadays is ABSTRACT produced in the Tuscany region, central Italy. Many direct applications of geothermal heat are also located This paper presents an overview on the development of in Tuscany, however thermal uses are widespread in the geothermal energy applications in Italy for the year national territory, with district heating systems (DHs) 2018 for both electricity generation and thermal uses. mostly localised in the north and other direct uses and Geothermal power plants are located in Tuscany, in the ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) distributing on a two “historical” areas of Larderello-Travale and Mount much larger territory. Amiata. Thermal energy applications are widespread over the whole Italian territory. To date, Enel Green The first part of this paper (sections 2-5) deals with geo- Power is the only geo-electricity producer in Italy.