Understanding heat transport during the planning of large geothermal plants is complicated because of heterogeneities in the subsurface and cyclical plant loads. SPRING offers numerous helpful features enabling reliable numeric calculation and prediction of a geothermal plant’s physical environment.

		Apart from the evaluation of geothermal potential, the software can assess the impact of potential groundwater pumping. Monitoring programs can be developed and competing demands on the groundwater resource evaluated.
Cross-section through a deep geothermic model: Visualisation of finite-element mesh and calculated temperatures.		Deep geothermal project in the Molasse Basin, southern Germany (up to to 5000 m below surface): Visualisation of numerically modelled temperatures in a fault zone.