Wedoany.com Report-Mar 7, With drilling of the second geothermal well completed and construction work on the heating plant progressing, the city of Turek in Poland can expect to be supplied by geothermal heat by June 2026.
Drilling and geothermal heating plant construction in Turek, Poland
The update was announced by the Municipal and Housing Enterprise in Turek (Przedsiebiorstwo Gospodarki Komunalnej i Mieszkaniowej / PGKiM Turek). The start of construction of the geothermal heating plant had been announced back in April 2024. The latest update states that construction work is now over 90% complete.
The second borehole, GT-2, had been drilled to a depth of 2665 meters. There is still further testing to be done before the actual thermal and physicochemical parameters of the well can be verified. However, the doublet (with well GT-1, drilled in 2019) forms the basis for geothermal heating in Turek.
Drilling of the GT-2 well was done by UOS Drilling SA, while the construction of the heating plant is being done by a consortium of Inzynieria Rzeszów and Energy Solutions. The total cost of the project is PLN 85.2 million (appox. EUR 20.41 million). This has been co-financed by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management with almost PLN 37 million as a non-repayable grant and another PLN 36.6 million loan.
When operational by 2026, Turek will have the 11th geothermal heating plant in Poland. Nine of these are already operational, while the tenth heating plant in Konin is in the process of obtaining permits before it starts operations.
