Geothermal Emission Control (GECO) Project
GECO aims to generate viable, safe, and cost-efficient technologies for cleaning geothermal power plant exhaust gases that can be applied throughout Europe, and the World. After developing a successful pilot project in Iceland, which consisted in limiting the production of emissions from geothermal plants by condensing and re-injecting gases or turning the emissions into commercial products, GECO will generalise the approach and apply it in four distinct geothermal systems in four different European countries: 1) a high temperature basaltic reservoir in Iceland; 2) a high temperature gneiss reservoir in Italy; 3) a high temperature volcano-clastic reservoir in Turkey; and 4) a low temperature sedimentary reservoir in Germany.