Hot Dry Rocks - Scotland

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 30 November 2023
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Summary

Hot dry rocks are a potential source of geothermal energy. In Scotland they are likely to exist as buried high heat production granites. Alongside other data from the Scotland Heat Map, information on the likely location of these rocks is used to identify areas where deep geothermal energy could be used as a low carbon, renewable heat source.

This data comes from a 2013 Scottish Government commissioned study into the potential for deep geothermal energy. The work was carried out by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and AECOM. Existing sources of data were used, no new measurements were taken. BGS used a number of sources to create this dataset. More information can be found in the study report on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/study-potential-deep-geothermal-energy-scotland-volume-2/

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
HEAT:Buried_HHP_Granites	N/A	30 November 2023	Not available
Buried_HHP_Granites	N/A	30 November 2023	Not available
Scotland's Heat Map	N/A	30 November 2023	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-11-30T10:15:42
• Access contraints: Available under the terms of the Open Government Licence. The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year) and British Geological Survey materials © UKRI (insert year).
• Harvest GUID: 938668ee-37d7-452f-8b19-b86ad24c4868
• Extent: Latitude: 60.87° to 54.63°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.80° to -0.71°
• Dataset reference date: 2013-11-13 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Scottish Government (pointOfContact)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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