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Hot Sedimentary Aquifers - Scotland
Hot sedimentary aquifers are bodies of permeable rock that can conduct significant quantities of groundwater. These ‘hot wet rocks’ are a potential source of geothermal energy. Alongside other data from the Scotland Heat Map, information on the likely location of these rocks is used to identify areas where geothermal energy could be used as a low carbon, renewable heat source.
This data comes from a 2013 Scottish Government commissioned study into the potential for deep geothermal energy. The study was carried out by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and AECOM. No new measurements were taken. Instead, BGS used a number of published studies to create this dataset. More information can be found in the study report on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/study-potential-deep-geothermal-energy-scotland-volume-2/
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2013-11-13
- Identifier
- www.gov.scot / SG_HotDryRocks
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Energy resources
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GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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energy demand
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energy source
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geothermal energy
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heat supply
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renewable energy source
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energy supply
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IPSV Subjects List
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Energy efficiency
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations to public access
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- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Non-Commercial Government Licence
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Available under the terms of the Non-Commercial Government Licence. The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year) and British Geological Survey materials © UKRI (insert year).
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 10000
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Economy
- Society
- Code
- S92000003
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
- Code
- EPSG:4258
- Code
- EPSG:27700
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version WMS
1.3.0
WFS
2.0.0
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotland-heat-map-documents/ Scotland's Heat Map
OGC:WMS
https://heatmap.data.gov.scot/getows.ashx?ms=mapsources/OGC Hot_SED_Aquifers
OGC:WFS
https://heatmap.data.gov.scot/getows.ashx?ms=mapsources/OGC&Version=2.0.0 HEAT:Hot_SED_Aquifers
Data quality info
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- Dataset
- Statement
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This data on hot sedimentary aquifers (HSAs), comes from a 2013 Scottish Government commissioned study into the potential for deep geothermal energy. The study was carried out by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and AECOM. The assessment of HSA potential in Scotland is based on published studies of bedrock aquifer productivity. 'Productivity' is a qualitative measure of aquifer quality, and is based on several quantitative hydrogeological parameters. The most productive ('very high productivity') rock units are confined to a number of relatively small occurrences of Permo-Triassic rocks in south-west Scotland and a single strip of Devonian sandstone in Fife. Large areas of somewhat less productive ('high' and 'moderate' productivity) sedimentary rocks of Devonian and Carboniferous age crop out across much of the Midland Valley, in the Scottish Borders area, and on the margins of the Moray Firth to the north and east of Inverness. Virtually all of the Highlands, islands and Southern Uplands are characterised by poorly productive rocks ('low' and 'very low' productivity).
The level of aquifer 'productivity' that would be required to support a commercially viable HSA scheme is likely to vary according to a range of factors, including the depth of the resource and water temperature. For the purposes of this assessment, it was assumed that only units classified as having 'very high' or 'high' productivity have HSA potential. More information can be found in the study report on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/study-potential-deep-geothermal-energy-scotland-volume-2/.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 8fb9fe13-571c-409f-97e0-3b1059de19bc XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-11-30T10:18:41
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Organisation name
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Scottish Government
- Position name
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GIS Analyst
- Delivery point
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Victoria Quay
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Edinburgh
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City of Edinburgh
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EH6 6QQ
- Country
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United Kingdom
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GI-SAT@gov.scot SAT@gov.sco GI-SAT@gov.scot
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- Point of contact