Case studies · Geothermal
Heat from the ground, de-risked.
Shallow geothermal for green buildings and deep geothermal power — feasibility, techno-economics and subsurface models that tell you what’s really down there before you drill.
- 2–5 km
- depths modelled
- 300–400%
- heat-pump COP
- 15+
- feasibility studies
- Baseload
- power potential
Featured study
Deep powerMunicipal utilitySwitzerland2025
A 2 km reservoir for municipal heat & power
Modelled a 2 km hydrothermal reservoir — temperature, flow and risk — to de-risk a municipal geothermal power and district-heat project before committing capital.
- 2 km
- reservoir depth
- ~30°C/km
- gradient
- 24/7
- baseload
Selected projects
A cross-section of the work — anonymised, with the outcome that mattered.
Green buildingDeveloper · Zug, CH · 2024
Solar + geothermal office
Shallow geothermal paired with rooftop solar — heated, cooled and powered from the ground and the sun.
- net-positive
- energy
- COP 4.1
- heat pump
FeasibilityHousing co-op · Lucerne, CH · 2025
Borehole field sizing
Ground-source field sized on real ground conditions for a 60-unit development.
- 18
- boreholes
- 150 m
- depth
Techno-economicIndustrial site · Basel, CH · 2024
Deep vs. shallow trade-off
Techno-economic comparison of shallow ground-source vs deep direct-use for process heat.
- 2 options
- modelled
- payback
- quantified
SubsurfaceEnergy developer · Upper Rhine · 2025
Reservoir characterization
Built a 3D reservoir model across scales to constrain temperature and permeability.
- 3D
- model
- multi-scale
- data
HeatingMunicipality · CH · 2024
District heat feasibility
Assessed geothermal as the low-carbon anchor for a district heat network.
- low-carbon
- baseload
- phased
- rollout
What’s in every study
However the brief differs, the method doesn’t.
Physics-based
We model the real system — sun, ground, flow — not rules of thumb.
Independent assumptions
Every input documented and defensible, free of vendor bias.
Measured vs. modelled
Verified against real performance wherever the data exists.
Decision-ready
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