A childhood fascination with bogs led one Welsh scientist to try and help save the planet.

Lanchester Wines in north-east England uses heat from a disused coalmine to maintain wine temperatures and with 23,000 flooded mines in the UK, there’s huge potential for more businesses and homes to ...

Nation Cymru Staff Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Peatland Specialist, Dr Peter Jones MBE, has been presented with a prestigious award at a UK peatland conference which was held in Swansea. The highly ...

Coal mines are notorious sources of acid mine drainage, but the orange sludge that threatens water supplies and wildlife also contains valuable rare earth elements.

A pilot scheme connecting 16 homes to Gateshead’s mine-water heat network, using external heat interface units

Understanding the subsurface is essential in all geothermal projects and in particular for mine water heating and cooling where the hydrogeological processes within the mine workings are complex and l...

Join us for an insightful webinar exploring how geothermal energy can support the region’s clean energy future.

The Geothermal Greenhouse Action Plan (GGAP) outlines a pathway to develop a community greenhouse utilizing geothermal energy from mine water under Springhill, Nova Scotia.

In Pennsylvania, new data centers could require enough electricity to power 11 million homes.

In previous articles, we have discussed (i) geothermal energy (heat from within the earth) as another source of renewable energy for heating and cooling of buildings, but whose use has been virtually ...

#Communities ⭐ 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 We are excited to announce the first activity of the #EAGE Technical Community on Geomechanics with the launch of our Expert ...

Gateshead's Living Laboratory is providing

Save the date for the 2026 Mine Water Geothermal Energy Symposium. The event follows up on the very successful events held annually since 2021. The symposium will be a hybrid event with the in pers...

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In the quiet village of Cumberland, British Columbia, the ghosts of an industrial past are stirring to offer change, an unexpected key to a future of clean energy. Deep beneath the streets where miner...

Mine water district heating schemes provide an opportunity to involve communities in their energy futures.

Traffic and people on Cardiff's streets causes what has been called

In just two weeks, a new mine water heat energy centre in the North East has been built! 👷⚡ This scheme will harness warm water already being pumped to the surface at our Dawdon Mine Water Treatment ...

Mine water technology extracts heat from floodwaters to power homes and it is hoped it could be used for millions of homes across the country

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First spatio-temporal overview of South Wales Coalfield bacterial community structures reveals cooccurrence of Fe- and S-oxidizing bacterial pairs, suggest

Microbes mapped in south Wales’s abandoned coal mines could hold the key to using mine water to heat Britain’s homes. With an estimated one-quarter of UK properties located above abandoned coal mines,...

Research providing updates to the cost and technical assumptions for deep geothermal for power, and deep and shallow geothermal for heat.

A UK-based workplace pension provider is investing in the development of a geothermal heat pump network at Parc Eirin in South Wales.

This event will gather experts from various backgrounds to discuss innovative approaches to mine pool utilization, management, and remediation strategies. Join us in sharing knowledge and fostering c...

Underground coal mining in Britain spanned several centuries, in multiple different seams, and at depths ranging from near surface to greater than 1 km below surface. Due to this complexity, drilling ...

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