"Though our electrical system is steadily decarbonising, our heating sector has been left behind. The use of geothermal systems to feed district heating networks is a huge opportunity to decarbonise using a fully local, clean, heat source."

Mark Geraghty, of GEMINI partner TU Dublin, has written about the history of geothermal energy and how using heat from the Earth to warm and cool buildings could deliver low carbon heat and help to relieve pressure on our electrical grid.

Read Mark's piece on the RTÉ website here.