The project seeks to create a computer tool to implement energy saving measures in a region of China (still to be defined), according to geomorphological and constructive resources, considering geothermal energy and rehabilitation, in a map of valorisation by region, with savings and environmental benefits.

Considering that the energy cost implies important increasingly expenses due to the strong rise in the price of electricity and / or the upward trend in fuel costs, we are trying to work in the line of supporting measures to help reducing them. Likewise,  from the environmental point of view, the commitment to the use of renewable energies is strengthened. The demand for energy in buildings depends on many variables, but the air conditioning represents a significant percentage, and that is why
finding an efficient system for the air conditioning of buildings leads to significant economic savings. Besides, as long as the new solution is based on renewable energy, there is a strong contribution to environmental sustainability.

In existing buildings, development will focus on both indoor and the thermal enclosures, since just with improvements in thermal insulation, energy savings of up 3 to 70% can be achieved. That is why rehabilitation is particularly important in
the search for the energy efficiency required by legislation and it produces significant energy and savings economic.

GEOTER would carry out the energy rehabilitation with geothermal energy, and would need a company that will be responsible for building rehabilitation, as well as the development of the computer tool.

Eventually, the project's goal is to optimize buildings in two ways: first, by improving the thermal cover to reduce energy losses, and second by using renewable energy such as geothermal energy to reduce the demand of energy coming from fossil fuels.
The joint application of energy and building rehabilitation allows promoting efficiency measures, which should be applied according to the characteristics of the different regions; so it will be necessary to generate a reliable data set that allows the efficient application of this energy optimization from both the economic and the energy point of view. To this end, a tool will be developed for the analysis of potential energy saving combinations based on the interaction of the different technologies and the available resources.

Among the innovative elements of this project, it should be noted that there will be an analysis of the energy saving potential that will correlate the reduction of demand with the inclusion of a renewable technology of high potential and performance, such as low enthalpy geothermal energy. It will also develop a tool to collect this result and ease the design and optimization of
rehabilitation measures and sustainable construction and implementation of geothermal facilities. In addition, this project offers the possibility of creating plans to promote energy saving measures that jointly contemplate rehabilitation and geothermal actions, assessing their suitability together.

It is of great interest to know the potential of low enthalpy geothermal energy and to develop a methodology for  implementation in the target areas, since in many countries where geothermal energy is widely diffused, it there is a lack of these studies, which has been identified as one of the main causes that slow execution of geothermal installations down.