Geothermal Applications

Always on
Clean
for the World
Sustainable Renewable
Widely Available

150 °C
90°C
40 °C
50 °C

125 °C

65 °C
Agricultural Drying
• Electric power is used to drive fans and pumps
• Represents about 0.5% of the total geothermal
energy use at the beginning of 2000
• Reduces food waste
Cooking
• Uses geothermal water from natural pools and
hot springs for cooking
• Bakes bread in the hot springs of Iceland
• Cooks fresh-caught trout in the geothermal
hot springs in Yellowstone
Space Heating
• Highly efficient system
• Saves up to 70% on heating, cooling,
and hot water
• Installation of the residential heat pumps
only about 10 feet into the ground

370 °C

90 °C

Electricity
Generation
• Uses heat from deep inside the earth
to generate steam to make electricity
• Supplies USA with 10 % of its electricity
by 2050
• About 27 countries generated a total
of about 83 billion kWh of electricity from
geothermal energy in 2018

80 °C

40 °C
41 °C

21 °C

Greenhouse
Heating 50 °C
Bathing and
• Produce grown year-round
Swimming
21 °C

• Increases food security

• Reduces price volatility
Snow Melting • Promotes ecotourism
• Provides therapeutic benefits
• Heats pavement to melt snow during the winter
• Reduces the cost of manual snow mitigation 65 °C

21 °C

Aquaculture Pond
Heating
• Helps meet global seafood demand
• Keeps the natural ecosystem in balance

0.11%

Global Geothermal Use in 2010

0.87%
0.23%
12.90%
0.98%
2.78% Geothermal Heat Pumps

Space Heating

Greenhouse Heating
10.72%
Aquaculture Pond Heating
Agriculture Drying
70.90% Industrial Uses
Bathing and Swimming
Cooling/Snow Melting
Others

Power Generation
Direct use / Geothermal Heat Pumps Geothermal Direct Use Capacity in 2015