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Introducing our networked geothermal program.

We’re committed to finding new ways to provide our customers with cleaner energy while helping them use energy more efficiently. We’re evaluating the potential for thermal energy networks to provide highly efficient space and water heating for our customers in place of natural gas heating.

How do geothermal energy systems work?

A thermal energy network uses the earth’s ground temperature to provide heating and cooling through a buried piping network. The constant underground temperature serves as a heat source during winter and transfers indoor heat to the ground for cooling during the summer.

When a building requires heat in cold weather, fluid circulated through the ground loop absorbs the warmth from underground and brings it indoors where a geothermal heat pump delivers comfortable, clean, warm air throughout your indoor space.

When a building requires cooling in summer months, excess heat from indoors is absorbed and concentrated by the heat pump and sent out of the building through the ground loop and back into the ground. Your geothermal heat pump provides cool, conditioned air throughout your indoor space.

What is networked geothermal energy?

 

What happens when networked geothermal is installed?

 
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Proven

Geothermal systems have been used for many years throughout the globe. Networked geothermal systems at universities have been operational for decades, providing consistent heating and cooling with cost savings and reduction in emissions.

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Reliable and sustainable

Geothermal energy provides a constant energy supply in all weather conditions. Ground source heat pumps deliver consistent indoor comfort without the fluctuations that can occur with traditional systems. Geothermal energy is a sustainable energy source continuously replenished by the sun and earth’s core, providing a fossil-free heating and cooling solution to last.​

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Clean, Heathly, and Safe

Customers can improve air quality and reduce their carbon footprint by up to 60%.

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Central Cooling

Most geothermal systems can provide both heating and cooling, a comfort upgrade for property owners with heat-only systems that rely on window/portable air conditioning and/or fans for cooling.

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Quiet

Ground source heat pumps are significantly quieter than traditional equipment used with other types of heating and cooling.

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Low Maintenance

Compared to traditional heating and cooling systems, geothermal systems require less maintenance to operate. The life expectancy of geothermal equipment and infrastructure is long, with heat pumps rated to last 25 years or more.

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Information about our networked geothermal program

Our geothermal program explores if a geothermal network can be used to replace customers’ natural gas service. We are currently designing a geothermal network in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, MA in collaboration with the Boston Housing Authority.

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Want to learn more?

Email our geothermal team at geothermal@nationalgrid.com