Community Scale Geothermal Heating & Cooling for Residential Developments

With Colorado’s Clean Heat Plan requiring carbon free residential heating by 2050, it makes little sense to continue expanding gas heating infrastructure to new housing developments. Geothermal energy offers a highly efficient and resilient option for new housing developments to fill the gap and provide high performance and economical heating AND cooling using geothermal heat pumps.

We’ll be joined by Maggie McCarey of Dandelion Energy, a leader in residential geothermal systems, who will provide an overview of this technology for new residential developments and highlight their project with Lennar to deploy community-scale geothermal heating and cooling for 1,500 homes under development in Colorado. The project’s goal is to standardize the technology as the most efficient tool for new housing developments on both an efficiency and economic basis.

Geothermal (aka ground source or ground coupled) heat pumps provide 300-500% efficiency, dramatically reducing emissions when compared to gas heating. Furthermore, ground source heating and cooling systems lose very little capacity during extreme weather events, reducing stress on the electric grid, an area of concern with air-source heat pumps. Community-scale geothermal heating and cooling provides an excellent option for new, all electric housing developments that avoids the safety risks and emissions associated with gas heated homes, saving consumers money on utility bills, and reducing electric grid costs for all ratepayers.

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