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Funding Notice: Community Geothermal

Heating and Cooling Design and Deployment

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the Community Geothermal Heating and Cooling Design and Deployment Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), which will award $300,000–$13 million for projects that help communities design and deploy geothermal district heating and cooling systems, create related workforce training, and identify and […]

Heat Locally to Cool Globally

Bourne’s Energy pellet truck delivering bulk wood pellets in Plainfield, VT. (Bourne’s Energy)

Jessie Haas and G.E.T. staff

Wood pellets save you money, but are they really all that green? The answer in the Northeast is: yes.

It’s partly a matter of geography. Europe destroyed most of its forests centuries ago. Now, with […]

Net-Zero Home Emerges from Sustainable Lifestyle

The 2,600 square-foot home boasts a blower-door test rating of 0.59 air changes per hour (ACH), compared to a similar home built to minimum local standards which would typically have a of about 3.5 ACH. (Courtesy images)

Dan Vastyan

For decades, Janet Armstrong and Lloyd Davies lived and breathed the sustainable […]

Groundbreaking Technology Provides Lower Cost Option for Geothermal

A diagram of a home with a double hybrid heat pump. The heat pump heats a hot water storage tank and supplies hot water to the building through the same pipes that the boiler once used. New ductwork (in red) is added for supplemental heat and air conditioning. (Source: Energy Catalyst)

G.E.T. […]

Geothermal’s Moment Has Come

Matt Power

Converting to net-zero, all-electric living may take decades, unless we re-examine low-input energy sources such as ground source heat pumps.

This year, we learned firsthand that “all-electric” living won’t happen overnight in the United States. For example, our Scottsdale exhibition remodel took on the task of converting from […]

BioHeat To Replace Home Heating Oil

Main-Care delivery truck. (Courtesy image)

George Harvey

Most people in this country drive cars, and most of those cars have internal combustion engines that burn fossil fuels. Many people who care about climate change and the environment still burn gasoline for transportation. The reason is clear. We cannot all go electric […]

Solar H₂O and Heat Pump Water Heaters

Schematic of a heat pump water heater

Solar Hot Water in the Age of Solar Electricity: Heat Pump Water Heater – Part 2

Russ Lanoie

Other than capturing the sun through windows for passive solar heating, for many years the most effective way to utilize the free energy of the […]

Looking For a Smarter, Easier Way to Heat and Cool Your Home? Upcoming Events To Share How Local Homes Are Switching To Heat Pumps

SYRACUSE, NY – Do you pay too much to heat your home? Is your home drafty? Do you want to end your dependency on fossil fuels or chopping wood? HeatSmart CNY hosts virtual events to explain how to improve the energy efficiency of your home, from better insulation to switching to cleaner, greener heating […]

McKibben ‘Heat Pumps for Peace’ Plan Gains Traction with Biden

The climate author had called on the president to “immediately invoke the Defense Production Act” to ramp up U.S. manufacturing and export of cleaner energy to counter Putin. ANDREA GERMANOS March 10, 2022 The White House has reportedly put under consideration a plan floated by climate activist and author Bill McKibben for the U.S. […]

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