Project InnerSpace has launched GeoMap India, highlighting the enormous potential for untapped geothermal energy to become a crucial part of India's clean energy mix as it seeks to spur economic growth and development by increasing energy supply.
GeoMap is a pioneering geothermal exploration tool focused on expanding the adoption of clean, always-on geothermal energy worldwide by bringing together millions of data points from the Earth's surface and subsurface in a freely accessible and interactive map. GeoMap India includes more than 175 subsurface and surface layers, including a prospecting tool to identify the most promising regions for development of geothermal powered data centers. GeoMap India also identifies coal power plants with the potential for conversion to geothermal power, and industrial zones that could benefit from geothermal heat networks.
GeoMap India highlights several regions in India that are particularly promising for geothermal development requiring higher temperatures, like for power and industrial heat production. These regions include:
- Gujarat State on India's west coast, including the area of the Southern Cambay Basin and the major industrial zone of Jhagadia;
- Large areas of east and northeast India, particularly in the Bihar and Meghalaya States, and into the southern eastern portion of Assam;
- The Himalayan region of northwestern India;
- Through the central Son Narmada Fault Zone, one of India's most significant tectonic areas, and the location of the Tatapani Geothermal Field;
- Along the eastern coast in the Andhra Pradesh State, along the Godavari rift, including the outskirts of Vijayawada, Andhra's commercial hub.
To illustrate the real world impact of geothermal development in one of these promising areas, Project InnerSpace partnered with Aarti Industries, a chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturer with facilities in Jhagadia, Gujarat, on a feasibility study to examine how a geothermal conversion pilot might provide power and industrial heat to one of its facilities.
