Project InnerSpace launches geomap europe geothermal mapping platform

On November 19, 2025, in Boston, Project InnerSpace announced the launch of GeoMap Europe, a continent-wide geothermal mapping and prospecting platform that consolidates decades of subsurface data to characterize Europe’s geothermal potential across applications including electricity generation, district heating, data center cooling, and subsurface energy storage. The organization reports that GeoMap Europe aggregates millions of thermal, geological, and structural data points and hosts a freely accessible visualization of subsurface heat across the region along with key surface data.

The platform outlines high-temperature resources suitable for power generation in multiple areas: Iceland; Tuscany and Mount Amiata in Italy; the Aegean volcanic arc in Greece; western Turkey; Hungary’s Pannonian Basin; and France’s Massif Central and Alsace regions. It also identifies significant district heating potential, indicating that cities can expand existing geothermal systems or develop new ones in Paris, Munich, Vienna, and Budapest, as well as Berlin, Warsaw, Hanover, Zurich, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Madrid.

GeoMap Europe points to industrial clusters co-located with geothermal heat in Northern Italy, Northern France, and Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, where geothermal resources can provide direct process heat, integrate with heat pumps, and supply steam for the chemicals, paper, food and beverage, and fuel production sectors via geothermal heat networks. Additional opportunities are noted for geothermal-powered cooling and waste-heat reuse in Germany’s Upper Rhine Graben, northern France’s Paris Basin, the Netherlands North Permian Basin, and Hungary’s Pannonia Basin. The platform also highlights subsurface energy storage potential to balance wind and solar generation in thick sedimentary basins in northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.

“Geothermal is the sleeping clean energy giant that the world has consistently overlooked, while collectively handwringing about the future of energy,” said Jamie Beard, Executive Director of Project InnerSpace. “If Europe moves quickly to launch its next chapter of geothermal development, energy independence and decarbonization are the dual prize. GeoMap Europe is the tool that will give developers, researchers, and governments a clear picture of where to get started.”

GeoMap Europe builds on earlier regional releases across Africa, Asia, North America, India, the Middle East, Oceania, and South America. With this release, described as the final milestone in GeoMap’s first phase, a freely accessible geothermal resources map has now been published for every region of the world.