All Entries in the "Geo-Exchange" Category
Start-up offers first turn key lake source geothermal solution
In Canada, entrepreneur Lorne Heise has designed a complete geothermal heating/cooling system that includes all components required to complete a lake source geothermal installation, down to the flex hose and compression fittings. According to Heise, his start-up, LIMNION “has applications and installations coming from all directions… special projects include a heating system for an exploration [...]
Project earns green business award in Connecticut
In Connecticut, a new distribution, showroom and office facility belonging to F.W. Webb Co. will open soon in Waterford. To heat and cool the 67,000-square-foot building, a dozen wells were drilled to 500 feet around the building, which will circulate water through a heat pump system. The facility will also use solar panels yo heat [...]
New Walgreens store is first chain drug store to use geo-exchange
In Illinois, Walgreens has opened the country’s first drugstore chain location that uses a geothermal system for heating and cooling. The company anticipates a 46% reduction in energy use from the system. The system uses a network of four closed-loop boreholes installed to depths of 650 feet, and a heat exchange system with the building [...]
Heat build up, leaks destroying geothermal field
In Oklahoma, the geothermal heating and cooling system at Mayes County Courthouse continues to have problems again, and it may take a cooling tower to make it work. The heating and cooling system problems have included compressor failures and no filters in the system. However, last summer, the well temperatures, which should never exceed [...]
West Vancouver to combine erosion control with heat draw
In Canada, the District of West Vancouver a geo-exchange pilot project will take heat from the ocean. The project would use a series of high-density plastic coils in rocks that are to be placed along the shore as part of an erosion control program. Those pipes would then be connected to a geo-exchange system to [...]
School district ground source system is saving money
In Illinois, the Superintendent Tom Akers of Cambridge schools said that the combined electric, gas and water bills for two buildings now using a ground source heating and cooling system was over $11,000 less over the last 6 months of 2010 compared to the previous year. He added that additional variables will need to be [...]
Growth causes EnLink Geoenergy adds VP of operations
In California, ground source system developer EnLink Geoenergy Services has added Ed Ziaebrahimi as Senior Vice President of Operations. He will be responsible for all field operations, project performance, client relations and contract management. Ziaebrahimi has 25 years experience in the construction industry handling all facets of managing major projects and was recently the senior [...]
Northeast town considering GT heating, cooling district
In New York, the Town of New Paltz has signed a nonbinding letter of intent with Hardin Geothermal of Indianapolis, which wants to create a closed-loop geothermal delivery system that homeowners and businesses would be able to access. Town Supervisor Toni Hokanson said if the system is built, the town would take responsibility for billing, [...]
Order to abandon 145 wells appealed
In Nebraska, K2 Construction is appealing a state agency ruling that 145 of 667 wells being drilled to heat and cool the new Lancaster County be abandoned. The wells are about 300 feet deep and were drilled to a diameter of 4 inches while Nebraska specifies 6 inches. K2 is seeking to make a case [...]
Growing ground source sales creates sales director position
In Kentucky, piping products fabricator and distributor ISCO Industries has added Michael Raider as the director of geothermal sales. The new position was created to support ISCO’s growing geothermal division. “We are seeing a lot of innovation and expansion within ISCO’s geothermal division,” said ISCO sales & marketing director Cheryl Hofmaier. “For this reason, Mike [...]
