Geothermal energy is a renewable, sustainable and endless energy source that includes the utilization of thermal energy, which exists in hot water, steam, gas or hot rocks in the earth's crust, by extracting it to the earth. Turkey has the 7th largest geothermal energy potential in the world with 31,500 MW due to its location on the Alpine-Himalaya earthquake zone. In our country, direct utilization of geothermal energy is benefited in central heating, greenhouse heating and thermal tourism. It is used for central residence heating in 18 settlements (67,700 residences equivalent, 608 MWt), for greenhouse cultivation in 15 sites (1,579,000 m2, 292 MWt) and for treatment and thermal tourism in over 200 thermal facilities in our country.

Niğde is substantially rich in geothermal energy resources.

Geothermal Inventory Potential of Niğde