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How does geothermal work?

No matter what climate you live in, the temperature throughout the year varies. For some climates that means blazing summers that cool to frigid winters. What many people don’t realize is that the temperature below ground (regardless of climate or season) stays fairly consistent all year. While air temperatures can vary greatly from day to night or winter to summer, the temperature just a few feet below the earth’s surface stays an average 55-70 degrees Fahrenheit year-round.

The World’s Best Solar Collector

The ground is able to maintain temperature consistency because it absorbs 47 percent of the sun’s heat as it hits the Earth’s surface. Geothermal systems are able to tap into this free energy with a series of underground pipes called an earth loop. This technology is used to provide your home or business with access to an infinite energy source for heating, air conditioning, and hot water.

Geothermal Heating

As outdoor temps fall, a geothermal heat pump draws from an underground reservoir of heat, concentrates it, and moves it to your home. Meanwhile, an ordinary heat pump collects heat from frigid winter air, making it least efficient when you need it to be the most. And unlike a furnace, geothermal units don’t create heat through combustion. They simply collect and move it.

Geothermal Air Conditioning

As outdoor temps rise, a geothermal heat pump collects the unwant-

ed heat in your home and moves it to the cooler earth. Ordinary heat pumps and air conditioners dump that heat outside, but, unfortunately, hot summer air is already saturated with heat and is less willing to accept more. That makes ordinary cooling systems least efficient when you need them to be the most.

Hot Water Assist

As a geothermal unit runs, it can capture heat that would normally go to waste and divert it to your water heater tank (using an optional component called a desuperheater). Your unit can generate up to 50 percent of your hot water — at almost no cost.

Benefits of Geothermal

Geothermal heat pumps are not only the most comfortable way to heat and cool, they also have a number of other benefits. They last longer, provide cleaner indoor air, offer unmatched environmental benefits, and more including up to a 30 percent tax credit! You have to experience it to believe it.