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UK Geothermal Platform (map explorer)
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero / British Geological Survey
- Licence
- Not stated
- Cost
- Check with holder
- Account needed
- Unclear
- Harvestable
- Automated
What it contains
Parent record for the ~90 layers in UK Geothermal Platform v1 (launched 11 Aug 2025). Summary layers are UNFC-coded on the F and G axes (E omitted). The four technology assessments cover Great Britain only; Northern Ireland is excluded.
When you need it
Useful at these project stages, from the working group's stage matrix:
- Matched on
- Temperature, heat flow and thermal properties (not a matrix item)
- Assigned by
- Matched to data items the matrix names
Coverage and detail
- Geographic
- Great Britain
- Nations
- England, Scotland, Wales
Access and machine route
- Licence as stated
- The holder does not state a licence.
- Assertion source
- no licence statement found at source
- Protocol
- GeoNetwork (CSW path unverified)
- Endpoint
- https://hosted-metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/uk_geothermal_platform/
- Harvest note
- yes-automated
Classification
- Category
- Resource & Subsurface
- Sub-category
- 1.2 Thermal regime
- Assigned by
- Stated by the source
- Data form
- Tool
- Evidence confidence
- Not yet assessed. Only a person can set this.
How current this entry is
- Last updated here
- 2026-09-22
- Last checked against the holder
- 2026-09-07
- Checked by a person
- Not yet. Nobody has read this entry.
- Catalogue id
- uk-geothermal-platform-map-explorer
91 layers in this platform
- BGS SOBI Boreholes
- Northern Ireland boreholes
- UK England onshore petroleum wells top holes
- UK Onshore Geophysical Library wells
- Borehole Shaft Temperature Profiles
- Coal Mining Reporting Area
- Heating Demand
- Mine Water Treatment Schemes
- Underground Working Extent
- Waste Heat From Treatment
- Cairngorms National Park
- England National Parks
- Great Britain Sites of Special Scientific Interest
- Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park
- UK England coal mine methane vents
- UK England onshore hydrocarbon fields
- UK England onshore petroleum licences
- Wales National Parks
- Great Britain bedrock geology 50k
- Great Britain bedrock geology 625k
- Great Britain faults 625k
- Great Britain linear features 50k
- Great Britain superficial geology 50k
- Great Britain superficial geology 625k
- Northern Ireland bedrock geology 250k
- Northern Ireland superficial geology 250k
- Coalfield temperature: Equilibrium temperature
- Coalfield temperature: Pumped temperature
- Deep geothermal areas
- Estimated temperature map of the UK (100 m depth)
- Heat flow (UK)
- Legacy Geothermal Catalogue
- Modelled temperature map (5 km depth)
- Modelled temperature map (7 km depth)
- Thermal conductivity properties
- Closed loop GSHP summary
- Deep geothermal, granites / EGS summary
- Deep geothermal, Hot Sedimentary Aquifer summary Unit 3 Carboniferous/Devonian
- Deep geothermal, Hot Sedimentary Aquifer summary Unit 2 Permian
- Deep geothermal, Hot Sedimentary Aquifer summary Unit 1 Triassic
- English cities mine water heat opportunity mapping
- Open loop GSHP summary
- Overall and cost summary
- Wales mine water heat opportunity mapping
- England Source Protection Zones
- Scotland groundwater classification and quality
- Wales source protection zones
- Water wells
- England groundwater bodies
- Hydrogeology 625k
- Wales groundwater bodies
- EA Monitoring Sites
- Engineering geology classification - bedrock
- Engineering geology classification - superficial
- Thickness of superficial deposits
- British Geological Survey 2D seismic
- Mining Remediation Authority 2D seismic
- Mining Remediation Authority 3D seismic
- UK Onshore Geophysical Library 2D seismic
- UK Onshore Geophysical Library 3D seismic
- Basal temperature contours
- Depth to base
- Depth to top
- Base faults
- Top faults
- Theoretical potential 'heat in place'
- Theoretical potential 'heat recoverable'
- Theoretical potential 'identified resources'
- Basal temperature contours
- Depth to base
- Faults
- Theoretical potential 'heat in place'
- Theoretical potential 'heat recoverable'
- Theoretical potential 'identified resources'
- Depth to top
- Faults
- Theoretical potential 'heat in place' (P50)
- Theoretical potential 'heat recoverable' (P50)
- Top temperatureC
- Depth to base
- Non-vertical faults
- Vertical Faults
- Temperature contours
- Theoretical potential 'heat in place'
- Theoretical potential 'heat recoverable'
- Theoretical potential 'identified resources'
- Basal temperature
- Depth to top
- Faults
- Theoretical potential 'heat in place'
- Theoretical potential 'heat recoverable'
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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero / British Geological Survey. UK Geothermal Platform (map explorer). Accessed via UK Geothermal Data Catalogue, https://catalogue.geothermaluk.org/id/uk-geothermal-platform-map-explorer/. Record uk-geothermal-platform-map-explorer.