What is Geothermal?
Geothermal heating and cooling systems, also known as GeoExchange systems, tap into the constant, moderate temperatures found a few feet below the surface of the earth, to offer the finest in home comfort conditioning. "Geothermal" means pertaining to the heat of the earth, and it's literally right there in your backyard. The lot surrounding a suburban home or other building contains a vast reservoir of low-temperature thermal energy-typically 10 times the amount required over an entire heating season. This resource is constantly re-supplied by the sun and surrounding earth.
Highly efficient geothermal systems use a small amount of energy to capture and move a large amount of free energy. In a typical home, 70% of the total energy bill comes from heating, cooling and hot water. As a result, the greatest opportunity to reduce your energy costs is to improve the efficiency of your heating, cooling, and hot water system by utilizing this "down to earth" technology. And this energy source is free, renewable, clean and environmentally-friendly. A geothermal system captures this free energy from the earth by using a series of pipes (an earth loop) buried in the ground. Read More On Geothermal...:.Geothermal Tax Credits
An exciting new tax credit is now available for home and commercial building owners who install geothermal heating and cooling systems through the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008 (H.R. 1424). H.R. 1424 offers a onetime tax credit of 30% of the total investment for homeowners who install residential ground loop or ground water geothermal heat pumps.. A credit of 10% of the total investment is also available (no maximum) for a commercial system installation. Read More On The Tax Credit...:.


