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Keeping Cool with Geothermal Energy 

The demand for cooling is likely to increase in Ireland and Northern Ireland, as the regularity of the extreme weather events increase in the coming years – a 1 in100 year heatwave doesn’t mean prolonged high temperatures will only happen once every 100 years; it means every year there is a 1% chance of that event recurring, and those odds are reducing all the time. 

So how does geothermal energy cool your home? ...

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Researcher in high vis vest with words Housing Executive
Geothermal energy: a new vision for homes in NI

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Researcher in high vis standing in front of a cliff in a quarry
Down to the core

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Researcher standing on a rocky shore
Old fractures, new heat

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Portrait of Sarah Blake
What needs to change?

Sarah Blake of GSI

Poster for GEMINI
GEMINI: Demonstration to Transformation

NI Geothermal Webinar 

Photo of Mark Geraghty
Irish geothermal district heating systems

Mark Geraghty of TU Dublin

Six people standing in front of a scientific poster
GEMINI work presented at European Geothermal Congress 2025
Cows looking at a gravimeter
Gravity surveys in County Antrim complete

September 2025

Man reading a gravimeter by a field
Antrim's Gravitational Pull

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Researcher laying a pipe in a field
Uncovering hidden heat beneath County Antrim

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Sligo Regional Sports Centre
Tread Softly (Sligo)

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Solar panel in a field
Exploring the Earth beneath County Antrim

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Three people stand in front of a GEMINI banner
The Gemini project is formally launched!

November 2024

Pen and pad on wooden surface
It seemed like a good idea at the time...

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