Thomas Hamacher is Professor of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems and is convinced that geothermal energy will also play an important role in the energy transition in the greater Munich area. Only the municipalities themselves would have to become active – especially in view of rising gas prices.
Thomas Hamacher is a professor for renewable and sustainable energy systems at the Technical University (TU) Munich in Garching and one of the project coordinators of the “Geothermie-Allianz Bayern”, a large-scale research network to which scientists from the TU Munich, the Friedrich-Alexander -University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the University of Bayreuth, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Munich University of Applied Sciences. He ascribes an important role to geothermal energy in the energy transition in the Munich region.