Every year tens of thousands of Americans make the switch from traditional heating and cooling systems to energy-efficient geothermal heat pumps. In doing so they decrease their overall energy consumption, reduce their carbon footprint, maintain their air comfort standards, and, best of all, start saving money. In fact, most of them will save enough money on their monthly electric bill to pay back the installation cost of the geothermal heat pump in five to ten […]

There are a few different ways you could have your energy-efficient geothermal heat pump installed to provide year round heating and cooling to your home. The most used method is a closed loop installation utilizing either a vertical or horizontal technique in relation to how the heat circulating pipes are laid out. Which method is best for your home depends very much upon a number of variable conditions. Closed loop is the most common method […]

Installing a geothermal heat pump closed loop with horizontal or vertical configuration requires some digging in the ground around your house. The more earth the excavators have to move means the more you have to pay and the longer the whole process is going to take. Recently, some geothermal heat pump installers have hit upon an innovative way to decrease the surface area needed for installation and cut out the amount of digging they have […]

A human heart beats constantly and, when it stops, that is a bad thing. The heart is designed to keep going and going and going.The compressor on a geothermal heat pump is designed to do the same thing. It works best when it can run for long periods of time without stopping and even better if it can go continuously. This constant cycle is not as damaging to the compressor as periodic starting-and-stopping is. The […]

The most commonly installed kind of geothermal heat pump is a closed loop system. In a closed loop, pipes are buried in the area around the house in order to circulate water and refrigerant to transfer heat in or out of the house as needed. When the system needs heat it absorbs it from the ground and when it does not it leaks it out. This energy transfer equates to significant savings as opposed to […]

Because subsurface temperatures remain mostly constant despite the season, most parts of the world can effectively install and utilize geothermal heat pumps. Of course, there are always regions with specific qualities that will make a geothermal heat pump more or less attractive depending upon the circumstances. So, what climate would benefit most from a geothermal heat pump? Tropical regions are right out the window! While a geothermal heat pump in a hot climate would not […]

There are two main types of heat pumps available on the market today: air-source and geothermal heat pumps. Both systems utilize the same kinds of engineering principles to provide heating in winter and cooling in summer. Each system transfers heat from one location in an environment to the other and can reverse cycle depending upon the desires of the homeowner. Both are also generally more energy efficient than traditional heating and cooling systems. So, how […]

Today, more than ever, efficiency has become an enormous factor for consumer trying to choose a new heating and cooling system for their homes.  It is well-known to consumers and installers alike that geothermal heat pumps are much more efficient at heating and cooling than air source heat pumps and other traditional heating and cooling methods.  But just how much more efficient are they? The first step in understanding how much more efficient geothermal system […]

Geothermal heating and cooling systems are becoming increasingly popular in the world of HVAC.  They are incredibly efficient and are much better for the environment than traditional air source heat pumps.  A geothermal heating and cooling system uses the natural consistent temperature of the earth to heat and cool a home, where air source heat pumps use the unstable temperature of the ambient air.  This means there are more components involved in a geothermal system, […]

Geothermal systems are some of the most efficient residential and commercial heating and cooling systems available.  They use the consistent temperature of the earth’s surface as a heat source in the winter and a heat sink in the summer.  The consistent ground temperature provides a dependable constant which is high enough to provide heat for heating applications and low enough to absorb heat for cooling applications.  There are many different ways to utilize geothermal energy […]