This partnership and strategic investment comes on the back of growing investor confidence in the company’s proprietary CeraPhiWell™ technology and execution strategy within the UK’s heat network sector.  The investment supports the company’s commercialisation plans along with its recent award of significant matched funding from the Net Zero Technology Centre to deploy its CeraPhiTru™ thermal Response Unit on its first site early 2023.

The CeraPhiTru™ unit is part of the CeraPhi suite of technology offerings and is designed to model and prove thermal resources already in place.  This is similar to the process employed in the Oil and Gas industry and will model and evaluate the thermal energy in place from deep end of life oil and gas wells, which then provides a quantifiable resource energy value along with unlocking its carbon reduction value.

CeraPhi CEO, Karl Farrow said: “Affordable energy, along with the decarbonisation of heat, is one of the greatest challenges we will ever face in the UK. Our dependence on fossil fuels – and the intermittent nature of renewables – cannot provide us with the resilience required within our energy mix.

With geothermal, we have a natural heat resource literally everywhere under our feet, and by using existing end of life oil and gas wells to provide a commercial validation of energy – and proving this resource using the existing expertise within the Oil and Gas sector – we plan to fast track access to direct use of heat at a commercial scale making it commercially available for everyone and an integral part of the energy mix.”

Richard Calleri, CEO of Ignis and GEOLOG, stated that “This memorandum of understanding, highlighting our mutual interests, is another strategic steppingstone in building Ignis’ geothermal footprint and broadening its spectrum of application into the lower enthalpy environment. With CeraPhi’s focus on repurposing existing oil and gas wells in the European markets, Ignis can bring additional innovative technologies to advance this effort.”

About CeraPhi Energy:

CeraPhi’s mission is to deliver an impact change to carbon reduction, providing a decarbonising baseload 1-2-1 energy transition solution. Using expertise from years of Oil & Gas production, CeraPhi is tapping into experience and resources to unlock more than six billion years of energy stored under our feet. More about CeraPhi at www.ceraphi.com.

About Ignis H2 Energy:

Ignis is focused on evaluating and advancing technologies that lead to a sustainable energy path. Ignis is currently assessing and evaluating geothermal opportunities based on their technical, resource sustainability and financial risks with a view to quickly becoming a geothermal power producer in multiple countries. Within this role, Ignis is partnering with companies that offer step change innovations to improve reliability, cost, and efficiency in geothermal energy delivery. The end goal: 100% Green Hydrogen production from geothermal. More about Ignis Energy at www.ignisenergy.com.

About GEOLOG:

GEOLOG is a world leader in delivering solutions and expertise to National, International and Independent Oil, Gas, Geothermal and CC&S operators globally. Since its founding in Milan, Italy in 1982, to service the Italian Geothermal market, GEOLOG has developed cost-effective solutions to complex and expensive downhole measurement tools. Through optimization and real-time delivery of formation evaluation, reservoir analysis, and geochemistry analysis at rigsite, well construction is improved, well delivery optimized, and production delivery accelerated. More about GEOLOG at www.geolog.com.