SeisGreen, a £3.6 million project, aims to better understand the unintentional side-effects of some energy transition solutions.

“SeisGreen”, a £3.6M project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), aims to understand and mitigate the “induced seismicity” that might be caused by injecting fluids into rocks. Subsurface fluid injection will be a necessary component of many green energy technologies, such as geothermal energy, carbon sequestration, and subsurface hydrogen storage.

Imperial College London will lead this project, in collaboration with the Universities of Bristol, Edinburgh, Liverpool, and Manchester. The project duration will be from 1 October 2022, through 30 September 2027.

Principal Investigator Dr Adriana Paluszny of Imperial’s Department of Earth Science and Engineering said: “I am excited to work with specialists across a spectrum of science and engineering disciplines, to find safe ways to inject fluids and contribute to a green energy future.” 

Seisgreen project details