What Are The Benefits?

Geoexchange systems provide superior comfort to building occupants because they provide a steady flow of lower temperature conditioned air or water, eliminating the surges, hot flashes and drafts associated with conventional systems.

The temperature of the ground a few feet below the Earth’s surface remains relatively stable between 10oC and 15oC. This constant “thermal reservoir” allows very efficient performance year round.

Geoexchange systems provide extraordinarily low operating costs. Approximately 75% of the energy used in geoexchange heating and cooling is renewable thermal energy from the ground – energy you already own. The remainder is clean electrical energy used to power the pumps and compressors. Dependence on utilities is reduced. Geoexchange also provides a “buffer” between your operating budget and the impact of increasing fossil fuel costs. Geoexchange systems do the work that ordinarily required three appliances: a furnace, and air conditioner, and a hot water heater. They eliminate the outdoor noise pollution and space requirements of an air source heat exchanger. Located indoors, they are extremely quiet and space efficient.

Geoexchange heat pumps are more reliable than conventional systems. Eliminating fossil fuel combustion means no thermal stresses, and equipment has a much longer life span. Geoexchange heating and cooling is an environmentally benign technology, with no emissions or exhaust. The emissions offset by even the smallest geoexchange system is equivalent to taking two cars off the road or planting an acre of trees.