Germany’s Daldrup & Söhne AG has been awarded a contract to drill a pair of deep geothermal wells near Munich, in the south of the country.
In a statement, the company reported that the contract, worth €16.8mn (US$19.6mn), was awarded by Amperland Thermalwärme GmbH (ATW), a subsidiary of the joint municipal waste management company, based in Olching, northwest of Munich.
The drilling technology and geothermal energy specialist will now sink deflected deep geothermal wells with drilling lengths of around 2,430m and 3,300m on the site of the Geiselbullach cogeneration plant.
Work on the construction of the site is scheduled to begin in September this year, with actual drilling expected to be carried out from December 2025 to May 2026.
“It is impressive to see the determination with which the cities and municipalities around Munich are pushing ahead with the heat transition for their citizens,” said Andreas Tönies, CEO of Daldrup & Söhne AG.
ATW has received a grant of €8.8mn (US$10.3mn) for the financial implementation of the geothermal project, with the funds originating from the federal government’s Effective Heating Networks (BEW) programme.
The Daldrup & Söhne AG statement added that the project will enable the further expansion of the district heating network of the Olching municipal utility company and, for the first time in Germany, combine thermal waste utilisation with geothermal energy to expand the district heating supply in the region in a climate-neutral manner.
“This is a significant step for regional energy supply with fuel-independent heat,” added Tönies.
“The geological layers in the molass basin are now very well known and suitable for using deep thermal water to extract heat in a cycle system for local and district heating networks. We are already in talks with other potential municipal and private sector clients.”