Tim Lines is a Project Finance Analyst working for the US 501(c)(3) Not-for-Profit organisation, Project InnerSpace under whose auspices this document is drafted. He is also CEO of the US geothermal developer, Geothermal Wells LLC; and a former energy policy adviser to the European Commission’s Central and Eastern European “Phare” programme which included his leading the drafting of district heat legislation and regulation for 13 Central and Eastern European countries, and Romania’s alignment with the Energy Chapter of the Acquis Communautaire. He has worked in the energy sector for 40 years. He is based in the UK.