Geothermal heating and cooling is the technology that uses the free and available heat from the earth to provide heating and/or cooling for a home, business, industry or industrial process.

What is a Geothermal Heat Pump?                              

Geothermal heat pumps, also known as the ground source heat pumps, are highly efficient renewable energy technologies that is gaining wide acceptance for both residential and commercial buildings.

Geothermal heat pumps are used for space heating and cooling, as well as water heating. Its great advantage is that it works by concentrating naturally existing heat, rather than by producing heat through combustion of fossil fuels.

The technology relies on the fact that the Earth (beneath the surface) remains at a relatively constant temperature throughout the year, warmer than the air above it during the winter and cooler in the summer – very similar to a cave.

The geothermal heat pump takes advantage of this by transferring heat stored in the Earth or in ground water into a building during the winter, and transferring it out of the building and back into the ground during the summer. The ground acts as a “heat source” in winter and a “heat sink” in summer.

The system includes three principal components:

●     Geothermal earth connection subsystem

●     Geothermal heat pump subsystem

●     Geothermal heat distribution subsystem.