GEO.POWER project: low-enthalpy geothermal energy performance and long-term strategies for Ground-Coupled Heat Pumps (GCHP) in residential and industrial building.

The general objective of GEO.POWER project is to exchange best practices related to low enthalpy energy supply and - after a technical and cost/benefit assessment to evaluate the potential of reproducibility - to prepare action plans for the large scale introduction of Ground-Coupled Heat Pumps (GCHP) in each of the member regions. Each action plan needs to provide an organized set of legal/regulatory, economic and technical proposals to address long-term investments strategy for GCHP application at wide scale. The partnership, coordinated by the Province of Ferrara (Italy) is composed by Ministries, Regions, Local Authorities, Universities and R&D agencies of 9 countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Sweden, Estonia, UK, Belgium and Slovenia) that are dealing at different level with the attainment of European policy objectives in relation to 20/20/20 Kyoto targets and the EU Building Performance Directive