The promotion of geothermal energy on the European level until now was only 
considered for electricity, within the EC Directive for the promotion of electricity 
from renewable sources from the year 2001. Geothermal heating and cool-ing 
received little political attention, in spite of its consider-able potential. 
In the framework of activities to increase the use of renew-able energies on 
the heating and cooling sector, also geo-thermal energy received new 
attention as one of the most reliable sources of renewable energy. The goal of 
the cur-rent EU policy is to increase market deployment in all rele-vant energy 
sectors: electric power, transport, and heat-ing/cooling. While transport for 
geothermal energy only is an option via secondary energy carriers like 
electricity or hydrogen, both the sectors of electric power generation and 
heat/cold-supply are now in the focus for support measures.

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