Ibero-American Atlas of Shallow Geothermal Energy by RIGS-CYTED

ALCARAZ, MAR; ENRIC VÁZQUEZ-SUÑÉ; MICAELA PLEITAVINO; LAURA SCHEIBER ; OSCAR DANIEL RIVERA GONZÁLEZ ; GEOVANNA VILLACRESES ; DIEGO ARAVENA ; DAVID MORENO ; AGOSTINA PEDRO ; LUCÍA SAMANIEGO ; ADELA RAMOS ; MAGALÍ CARRO PÉREZ ; DAVID MORILLÓN ; DANIELA BLESSENT ; LINDA DANIELE ; JULIÁN RAMOS ; JOSÉ MACÍAS

San Francisco

Congreso; AGU 2019 - FALL MEETING; 2019

American Geophysical Union

The shallow geothermal energy is experiencing a continued growth in Ibero-American countries in keeping with the worldwide concern about climate change, and of course, as a feasible option to reduce the economic charges of electricity uses.To promote the use of alternative renewable energy sources in Latin America, such as shallow geothermal energy, the Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for Development (Programa de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo ? CYTED) is financially supporting the Ibero-American Network for Shallow Geothermal Energy (Red Iberoamericana de Geotermia Somera ? RIGS-CYTED). CYTED program has the aim to encourage the installation, development and integration of shallow geothermal energy systems for the development of productive activities, heating and air conditioning in buildings of different types in both urban and rural areas using mature technologies, tested and available in Latin America.As an integrating network, RIGS-CYTED will create a cooperative working framework that facilitates and catalyzes the generation of new activities related to R+D+I around shallow geothermal energy in Ibero-America. RIGS-CYTED is integrated by 11 research groups from 7 different countries (Argentina, Spain, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Colombia and Mexico) enclosing a total of 55 researchers, with the collaboration of external partners from NGOs and SMEs. They all have committed during the next four years to join forces to achieve the proposed objectives.The expected results from the first year of work will be related with the publication of a preliminary version for the Ibero-American Atlas of shallow geothermal potential. In the following years, RIGS members will evaluate existing and mature technologies, carry out a normative and regulatory analysis for each country, elaborate a good practice manual based on international specifications, identify applications at metropolitan scale with technical-economic feasibility analysis, identify the cluster of local companies related to the development and manufacture of equipment and components and, finally, develop numerical models to simulate the shallow geothermal exploitation in groundwater to assess environmental impacts.