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Towards a European Geothermal Information Platform

Adele ManzellaEugenio Trumpy

CNR

WP3

Geothermal ERA-NET final meeting: Moravske Toplice 13/10/2016

Organisational structure / work packages

WP3 Towards a European Geothermal Information Platformwas: WP3 Towards a European Geothermal Database

lead partner: National Research Council of Italy (CNR)

•Planning

• Start month 1• End month 54 (project 6 months extension, was 48)

X - M8 and M9 in months 10 and 15 X – D3.1 an D3.2 in months 12 and 22 X – D3.3 in month 53

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WP3 Towards a European Geothermal Information Platform

Description of deliverables and milestones

Task 3.1 Preparation of the scientific and technical activity (CNR): Preparation activities, including scientific and technical programme, two specialized workshop on European Geothermal Database, organizationof addictional meeting

Task 3.2 State of the art and needs (CNR)Questionnaire, data inventory, needs and gaps, State of the art report

•D3.1 Report on the state of the art and needs in regarding geothermal data and existing tools to manage them: [month 9] (CNR)•MS8 Database workshop 1: European Geothermal Information platform: State of the art and needs [month 10] D3.1 Report delivered

Task 3.3 Preparation of a feasibility study (CNR/BRGM)Discussion on feasibility, INSPIRE inplication on EGIP, budget estimation, feasibility study

•MS9 Database workshop 2: European Geothermal Information platform: Feasibility study [month 15] •D3.2 Feasibility study for a European Geothermal Information Platform: [month 18]> MS2: Database workshop 2 anticipated (1 month), taking advantage of the EGC2013 (June 2013) D3.2 Report delivered

Task 3.4 Following-up the implementation(CNR)Discussion on EGIP implementation by a Join Call

•D3.3 Report on the implementation of the European Geothermal Information Platform : [month 54] D3.3 Report delivered

WP3: Milestones

N. title Delivery Date

8Database workshop1: European Geothermal Database State of the art and needs

March 2013

9Database workshop 2: European Geothermal Database Feasibility study

June2013

WP3: DeliverablesN. title Person/

monthsNature Dissemination

levelDelivery Date

D3.1

Report on the state of the art and the needs in regarding geothermal data and existing tools

1 R RE April 2013

D3.2Feasibility study for a European Geothermal Database

1 R PUFebruary

2013

D3.3

Report on the implementation of the European Geothermal

Database

1 R RE53

September 2016

Objectives

• Study the condition for implementing an European Geothermal Information Platform

• Work setting standards

• Propose a structure

• Prepare a references to be followed at national level

• Put the base for a data model to share information

• Define general rules to manage catalogued data and implement services

• Following INSPIRE rule and technical specification


Geothermal Databases• Scientists, operators and

consultants • underground data, maps• Public/reserved• National (most

cases)/international (operators/consultant)

Geothermal info collection• Regional, national and

European administrations• regulations, documents,

descriptions and maps of geothermal leases and permits, and energy production values

• Public• National/local

Geothermal info collection• Information providers• general information (e.g.

definitions, terms) in the form general information (e.g. definitions, terms) in the form of texts and figuresof texts and figures

• Public• National


Geothermal info collection• Funding and insurance

agencies• information aimed at creating

risk management and economic analyses of all proposed projects

• reserved DB from Public data• National/international

Geothermal info collection• Manufacturers • components for

geothermal plants• Public• National/international

Geothermal info collection• Education centers• Training courses• Public• National/local


Task 3.2 – State-of-the-art

Questionnaire structure

• General Database Context information• Data Master List

– Scientific and technical aspects– Social acceptance (including environmental issues)– Code (thesaurus, glossary, lexicon, reporting code)– Skills & employees, energy needs– Research R&D– Training and education– Regulatory aspects– Economics (fund, risks&insurance)– Other (hints)

• Database Application to develop (including INSPIRE awareness)• Procedures for data update and data management


Towards a Geothermal European Information Platform EGIP – content

Geothermal Platform

6: Training &

education

5: Research

(project, road map)

7: Regulatory aspects

8: Economics (including

risks &

insurance)

4: Skills &

employees Energy need

3: Code

2: Social acceptance

1: Scientific

Technical aspects

(underground, temp, reservoir)

Widely distributedStructured

information

Widely distributedUn-Structured information, always documents – Not yet included into

any Database

State of the Art Needs and gaps

Majority of the crucial issues (I):

• to elaborate a common database gathering info from various sources

• to define tools to manage the exploited aquifers and to assess the possibility of

new operations

• to harmonize services and data management following a precise protocol, which

should also define data content and format

• to be conform to INSPIRE

State of the Art Needs and gaps

Majority of the crucial issues (II):

• to provide tools helping to select potentially interesting areas also taking into

account other factors beside geothermal potential, e.g., energy demand, potential

coverage of different kind of energy demand with respect to geothermal heat and

power potential supply, social aspects

• registration system of geothermal and cold water wells

• tools to manage regulatory forms (restriction maps, on-line permissions and

concessions request forms)

• Integrated tool to manage all data types and provide synthetic and aggregated

information


D3.1 > Delivered

April 2013

delay = 2 months

Aims of EGIP idea:

reduce the information fragmentation reduce the effort for data provision reduce risk in geothermal unsustainable management by

showing distribution of operations raise awareness of geothermal energy by providing an

overview of its application at European scale increase focus and investment in geothermal energy raise awareness of geothermal energy potential provide information to operators and potential users

(administrations, private users, citizens) make and show statistics verify amount and distribution of data (hence, also needs

and gaps)


Task 3.3 Preparation of a feasibility study

EGIP: for who?

potential international energy users (international operators and funding agencies interested in launching new geothermal projects)

any geothermal stakeholder to respond to the increasing concerns of non-

geothermal sector stakeholders that geothermal applications are too confusing and difficult to manage

EGIP: what is?

distributed system: each (national) data provider delivers its data according to a common standard data model and common services.

Information are catalogued and served following the INSPIRE directive

A EU portal will request all national service providers to deliver their part of the European puzzle


EGIP Architecture overview

« European products»

DB1

Metadata

Catalogue

DB2 DB3 DB4

Common rules for:1. Metadata (INSPIRE?)

2. Web Services:- View- Access (download)- Process

3. Common data model,used by services to deliverand process data

Each provider delivers a piece of the puzzle:

Which can be map or data

Metadata describingdatasets and services

Catalogue service(CSW)

For the common data model to be used by the access, download and process services:- to specify this data model : input from existing DB, and INSPIRE requirements- Participation to Specification Working Groups for standardisation (INSPIRE and others)- Development of vocabularies (code-lists)

For the services:- View and access/download services are well specified in INSPIRE - Process services have to be compliant with a general framework only

Towards a Geothermal European Information Platform EGIP – functionalities

EGIP tools have toguarantee a 360° databrowsing (e.g.,browsing from acatalogue to adocument, from adocument to a tabledinfo or spatial data)and allowing a deepsurvey into thegeothermalknowledge.

Towards a Geothermal European Information Platform EGIP – content

Towards a European Geothermal Database

EGIP benefit

• Guaranteed data interoperability: retrieval, viewing and access of information from

partners and other providers (via WMS, e.g. protected areas)

• Harmonized geothermal domain at a European level

• Efficiency, thanks to the non-multiplicity of data sources, the latter being directly

related to national databases

• Guaranteed ownership: data belong to and stay in the country they are related to.

• Durability and maintainability

• Economically viable, requiring only coordination with respect to what each country

would need to develop independently

• Productivity, by covering all published data in the long term.

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EGIP: how?

EGIP: when?

Step-by-step plan:o First step - Stage 0: map the links and documents where

geothermal information is currently provided at a national levelo Short term – Stage 1: implemented as Joint Activity in GEO ERA-

NETo Medium term – Stage 2 Joint call?o Long term – Stage 3 Future actions

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EGIP – Stage 0


D3.2 > Delivered

February 2014

delay = 4 months

EGIP pilot concepts:

The aim of this early stage is to prove the effectiveness and efficiency of EGIP

The initial development of the pilot project involved setting up a geothermal common data model and the management and optimization of services

EGIP is designed to fully satisfy the end-user by providing easy and usefuldata retrieval and cost containment, in compliance with INSPIRE rules for building a (spatial) Data Infrastructure

Set-up EGIP pilot:

Startup conference call with BRGM 02/04/2014

Produced documents: EGIP.xsd EGIP_Pilot_data_model_1.0.pdf EGIP-Pilot_Implementation_Games_Rules.pdf

o Conference call minute with volunteer partners:

Conf #1 01/07/2014 Conf #2 16/07/2014 Conf #3 31/07/2014 Conf #4 06/08/2014 Conf #5 25/08/2014 Conf #6 04/09/2014

EGIP Architecture overview I

« European products»

DB1

Metadata

Catalogue

DB2 DB3 DB4

Common rules for:1. Metadata (INSPIRE)

2. Web Services:- View- Access (download)- Process

3. Common data model,used by services to deliverand process data

Each provider delivers a piece of the puzzle:

Which can be map or data

Metadata describing datasets and services

Catalogue service(CSW)

For the common data model to be used by the access, download and process services:- to specify this data model : input from existing DB, and INSPIRE requirements- Development of vocabularies (code-lists)

For the services:- View and access/download services are well specified in INSPIRE - Process services have to be compliant with a general framework only

The EGIP @ national level:1. Collecting/preparing the data

2. Data mapping (if needed)

3. Creating catalogue of the metadata (following the INSPIRE rules)

4. Implementing discovery, view, download services

1. Preparation of the xsd file and EGIP data model documentation

2. Web portal implementation

3. Setting up the portal on web services retrieved from the

confederate national portals

4. Checking the EU-portal functionalities

The EGIP @ EU level:

DB1

EGIP Architecture overview II

EGIP pilot – Stage 1: list of data

Step-by-step plan:o First step - Stage 0: o Short term – Stage 1o Medium term – Stage 2o Long term – Stage 3

The EGIP consortium:

National Research Council of ITALY

Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières - FRANCE

Swiss Federal Office of Energy (with Swiss Geological Survey)

Magyar Foldtani és Geofizikai Intézet - HUNGARY

The volunteers participating countries up to now:

OS Orkustofnun - ICELAND

Slovenia Geological survey

Start date: 02/04/2014 Kick-off: 02/04/2014 End: 09/2014 Duration: 6 months

How does EGIP work?

Powered by:

pilot initiative deploy a data infrastructure aimed at facilitating open access, the sharing of data, collaborative analysis, processing and mining processing, as well as the dissemination of newly generated knowledge.

The EGIP pilot offers a flexible and secure web-based, community-centricplatforms, so geothermal stakeholders can work together on common challenges

The EGIP platform uses a specific Virtual Research Environment (VRE) set-up exploiting some of the D4Science infrastructure capabilities, which are developed and operated employing the gCube technology

The EGIP follows the INSPIRE specification and deploy OGC standard services

The EGIP apps

StatCube applications make up analytical tools:• Statistical manager

applications in EGIP:

ConnectCube applications are a comprehensive suite of tools, which support a collaborative, standards-oriented data publication environment:

• Shared workspace• Social Network facilities

GeosCube applications help practitioners dealing with geospatial information to properly access and consume:

• Geospatial Data Discovery• Metadata catalogue

EGIP pilot website

Join EGIP pilot

Registration and access

Contact references

Documents describing how to join in EGIP pilot

Join EGIP pilot

EGIP – Stage 1

CS-W catalogue:• Harvests the

metadata from partners metadata catalogues

• Metadata collection for spatial dataset

• Metadata collection for documents

• INSPIRE Standard ISO-19139

• Dublin-core• Spatial search• Text search

EGIP platform: Data Catalogue

EGIP platform: GeoExplorer

• HeatFlowUnit among volunteers participants

Map tools

Layer tools

EGIP platform: Statistical Manager

Statistical analysis:• Analysis served by WPS • Import dataset• Define analysis name

• Manage series• Execute and get results as different chart & plot• Share your analysis

EGIP platform: Statistical Manager

Statistical analysis:• Execute and get

results as different chart & plot

• Save the results of your analysis

• Share your results exploiting connectionCube apps (Workspace and Social)

A single place to

•Get status and updates from applications and other users

•Get notifications about messages, jobs completion, new generated products, etc.

Share Updates

User news feed

EGIP platform: Collaborative environment, Social facilities

A single place to

• Manage data, store and preserve them

• Share data

• Share your analysis & Maps

EGIP platform: Collaborative environment Workspace

EGIP documents categories

• Scientific and Technical aspects

• Social acceptance

• Code

• Skills, employees and Energy need

• Research

• Training and Education

• Regulatory aspects

• Economic aspects

Document metadata – Standard Dublin Core

EGIP Pilot unveiling at GeoERA-NET – EERA-JPGE joint meeting – Trieste - September 2014

Geo ERA-NET project assemble firstly (September 2014) and the Supervisory Board secondly (December 2014) established that a further step of EGIP evaluation would be needed

Paper published in International Journal of Digital Earth 22/09/2015

Tuning EGIP JA proposal – Survey organization, submission and gather results

“Building a European Geothermal Information Network using a Distributed e-Infrastructure”

EGIP pilot project

Trumpy, E., Coro, G., Manzella, A., Pagano, P., Castelli, D., Calcagno, P., Nador, A., Bragason, T., Grellet, S., Siddiqi, G., 2015. Building a European geothermal information network using a distributed e-Infrastructure. International Journal of Digital Earth, Volume 9, Issue 5, 499-519, DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2015.1073378.

JA Participants:National Research Council of ITALY

Swiss Federal Office of Energy (with Swiss Geological Survey)

Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières - FRANCE

Magyar Foldtani és Geofizikai Intézet – HUNGARY

OS Orkustofnun – ICELAND

Slovenia Geological survey

Classification of Joint Activity: JA1 which can develop into JA3

Start date: 15/03/2015 Kick-off: 15/04/2015 End: 09/2015 Duration: possibly 13 months

Identification of national stakeholders

Identification of trans-national stakeholders

Organization of a common and shared

survey, provided as web-questionnaire

Survey harvest and analysis

Actions:

The survey was divided in 3 parts:

1. Institution typology

2. EGIP concept and

3. EGIP pilot experience, which was optional

Survey on EGIP

Identification of:

what problems EGIP should solve

who should use EGIP

assess the EGIP necessity

Aims:

Participants: Experts, Project developers, Industry, Research

Survey:

Respondents

92

28

4

48

27

12France

Hungary

Iceland

Slovenia

Switzerland

Surveys completed 130

Country SubmittedSurvey

completedFeedback [%]

Switzerland 84 48 57%

Italy 59 27 46%

Slovenia 26 4 15%

Hungary 3 2 67%

Iceland 76 28 37%

France 119 9 8%

Trans-national stakeholders 18 12 67%

Total 385 130 34%

Survey Results Many stakeholders are interested in the European Geothermal Information Platform

The main interested groups are Academia/Research centres, public authorities and industry

The interviewees showed significantly more interest in hydrothermal than in petrothermal (EGS)

systems.

Easy and quick access to data, documents, specialist information are seen as most important added

values to today’s situation.

All three raw data types (well data, geophysical surveys, production data) resulted very valuable

Temperature and heat flow maps, geological maps, cross-section and 3D models, interpreted

seismic lines and heat flow maps are the most valuable interpreted spatial datasets

Best practices and guidelines are the document type mostly required

INSPIRE awareness and country compliance cannot be evaluated

IGA and EGEC web site are the most used and known geothermal information platform


Report on EGIP Joint activity > Delivered

January 2016

Last year (end of 2015)

The time limits and administrative issues on regard of fund management, made the call unfeasible. In February 2016 the call for tender on EGIP was abandoned.

Geo ERA-NET project consortium and the Supervisory Board introduced two tasks on

EGIP:

1. To form a group of 3-4 experts (or more if needed) to extend the INSPIRE oriented

technical guideline for geothermal data. (no competition – not suitable for tender)

2. Development of a user friendly web based front-end to access, view, download,

share and analyse data and information of the gradually developing EGIP (tendered

out)

EGIP Expert Group

Established in January 2016

Intended to help in the management of a call for tender for developing a web based user friendly front end for EGIP

Since the call for tender was given up, the EGIP EG decided to synthetize the experience acquired during the Geothermal ERA-NET into an overall document for offering an overview of EGIP to prepare its implementation

Analysis of possible future scenarios for EGIP implementation

EGIP EG – main outcomes Recommended geothermal data themes and relevant INSPIRE guidelines

Geodata and non-Geodata

EGIP deals with geodata and non-geodata. The EGIP Expert Group strongly recommends to consider at the

same level geodata and non-geodata in the EGIP implementation.

European harmonization

Implementing EGIP is an opportunity to assist the harmonization the geothermal European sector at the

European level.

Stakeholders’ involvement from the beginning

Sustainable governance

The Information Platform needs sustainable governance operating even after the end of the EGIP

implementation project to guarantee the accessibility and the update of the data, and to allow the

evolution of the platform for fitting the user’s demand.

Border harmonization, cross border discontinuity and interpolation issue

Future scenariosTwo ways were investigated:

a) GEOTHERMICA CoFund Action: limited possibilities for EGIP to be tackled in that

framework. However, non-geodata could be covered by GEOTHERMICA.

b) GeoERA CoFund Action: feedbacks were positive, EGIP could have a good opportunity for its

implementation within the Geoscience Information Platform that GeoERA consortium.

However, some issues were raised:

GeoERA will deal only with geodata, whereas non-geodata are important information for EGIP.

Not all EGIP partners participate in GeoERA and would require to be inserted as third parties

The maintenance of EGIP platform both at central, European level and at national level, is not

planned and guaranteed

‘Geothermal Technological and Innovation Platform’ (Geothermal ETIP), recognized by

European Commission on July 2016 and which includes representatives from industry,

academia, research centres, and sectorial associations, can be considered another suitable

and strategic place for preparing the EGIP platform implementation.


Report on EGIP EG > Delivered

January 2016

“European Geothermal Information Platform - EGIP - An overview to prepare the implementation” and includes also INSPIRE oriented guidelines to implement EGIP.

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Task 3.4 Following-up the implementation

•D3.3 Report on the implementation of the European Geothermal Information Platform : [month 53]

The report describes activities performed in the last two years (mid 2014 –

September 2016):

the pilot of EGIP released in 2014

the survey on EGIP completed in 2015

the work of the EGIP EG and its document 2016

final section highlights the main outcomes, the open issues and sketch the next

steps.


D3.3 > Delivered

September 2016


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