Paris Airport to Go Geothermal

A Paris airport is to extract geothermal energy from deep underground to save energy and slash heating bills in a €11m project.

Two shafts, each 1,700m deep, will be drilled on Paris-Orly Airport's perimeter to access a water table warmed by heat emanating from the Earth.

The Orly-Ouest terminal, part of Orly-South, the airport's Hilton Hotel and two business districts will be hooked up to the system from 2011.

By staff writer