Renewable Energy Sources in a Post-Socialist Transitional Environment: The Influence of Social Geographic Factors on Potential Utilization of Very Shallow Geothermal Energy within Heating Systems in Small Serbian Town of Ub
Faculty/Professorship: | University of Bamberg |
Author(s): | Jocić, Nikola; Müller, Johannes; Požar, Tea ; Bertermann, David |
Title of the Journal: | Applied Sciences |
ISSN: | 2076-3417 |
Publisher Information: | Basel : MDPI |
Year of publication: | 2020 |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 8 |
Pages: | 1-19 |
Language(s): | English |
DOI: | 10.3390/app10082739 |
URL: | https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/49821 |
Abstract: | Energetic stability is a precondition for a regular functioning of society and economy. Actual climate change raised the awareness of population and policy makers about the importance of exploited energy sources. Renewable energy sources are revealed as the solution which should satisfy both needs—a need for energetic stability, as well as a need for producing ‘clean’ and ‘sustainable’ energy, and therefore reduce humans’ influence on the climate change. Very shallow geothermal energy offers wide range for utilization, among others for heating and cooling living spaces. This article shows potentials of low temperature heating system networks in a small Serbian town of Ub. In addition to technical possibilities, this article combines geographical and social, as well as political and economic circumstances in the town of Ub, which emerge as a result of a complex (post-socialist) transitional vortex. |
GND Keywords: | Ub ; Erneuerbare Energien ; Geothermik |
Keywords: | renewable energy sources ; very shallow geothermal potential (vSGP) ; low temperature district heating ; post-socialist transitional environment |
DDC Classification: | 910 Geography & travel |
RVK Classification: | RP 30701 |
Type: | Article |
URI: | https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/54117 |
Release Date: | 27. May 2022 |

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