Daldrup & Shne AG has received an order from Erdwrme Neustadt-Glewe GmbH, district of Ludwigslust-Parchim, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the construction of a so-called sidetrack from an existing borehole. The project is worth around EUR 3 million. The well is intended to expand the available output of the geothermal heating plant, which has been in operation since 1995.

Drilling is scheduled to start in July 2023 and is expected to be completed in August 2023. For Daldrup & Shne AG, this is already the second contract in the federal state within a short period of time after the drilling for Schwerin municipal utility. Currently, the first geothermal power plant in Germany, built in 1984, has a capacity of 13 megawatts of heat and supplies 1,400 households with climate-friendly geothermal energy via a local heating network.

With the expansion, 15 MW will be available and an additional 200 households will be supplied. The city wants to achieve a neutral carbon dioxide balance by 2030. Geothermal energy makes a considerable contribution to this.

The subsoil of the North German Plain in Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania offers cities and municipalities optimal conditions for using geothermal energy, which provides enormous advantages: it makes consumers independent of political developments in the countries of origin of fossil raw materials and of fluctuating gas and oil prices. In addition, the use of domestic geothermal energy promotes regional value creation.