Tapping the Thermal Energy Opportunity with Geothermal Networks

As we move to decarbonize heating and cooling our homes and businesses, one of the biggest challenges is replacing gas-based heating in legacy and new construction. Tapping into geothermal energy using ground-source heat pump technology offers an extremely efficient option for both heating and cooling. But the high upfront capital costs make it unattainable for many individual home and building owners.

Deploying this technology at scale as a Geothermal Network with a single loop serving many homes is demonstrating that it can replace gas-based heating while maintaining affordability. To tell us more about the gas-to-geothermal opportunity, we’ll be joined by Zeyneb Magavi of HEET, a non-profit that is helping utilities transition from gas to low-carbon thermal energy providers.

Zeyneb will show us how the ambient-temperature single-pipe thermal energy network works (aka geothermal network) and how it can replace gas in providing heating and cooling that is economic, more efficient, scalable, and healthier and safer for occupants. She will discuss how these systems' new construction, as well as retrofits for existing communities, are served by gas. She’ll also provide examples from international and domestic projects, such as the Framingham loop, a retrofit project in Massachusetts.

So please join us to learn more about the advantages of geothermal network energy: safe, efficient, affordable, renewable, local, and always available.