Exchange Rate – Geothermal Heating & Cooling Saves Energy But has Costs
Want to heat you house or office. Check out this new Geothermal Heating and Cooling developed by Mass-Innovation on a building which was formerly a shoe factory in Fitchburg into a thriving development with geothermal heating and cooling systems and one of the largest privately owned solar energy panel arrays in the state. It was found that the gas bill drastically reduced or can be ignored from the monthly utility fix cost. However there are still some electricity required to operate the pump to circulate the heated water. Check out the following articles written by Matthew Bruun TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF:
With the heating system at Crocker Elementary School in Fitchburg on its last legs, School Committee member Sally H. Cragin sees an opportunity.
The state School Building Authority has already identified Crocker, which serves kindergarten through fourth grade, as eligible for renovation and repair funds. Among the options being considered for the school is a geothermal heating and cooling system, which proponents say is more efficient and cheaper to run than conventional systems.
Fitchburg will seek bids to study its feasibility.
To see geothermal in action, Ms. Cragin visited the Massachusetts Innovation Center on Oak Hill Road in Fitchburg.
“We saw that it was clean; we saw that it was very efficient engineering, and it made us curious to find out more,” she said. “The time is now. We are in a steady, serious pursuit of knowledge about this.”
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