New ORNL Report on Geothermal Heat Pumps!
Thursday, February 18th, 2016
A report by ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratories) analyzed the national benefits of GHP systems and found that replacing all existing residential space-heating, space-cooling and water-heating systems in U.S. single-family homes with properly designed, installed and operated state-of-the-art GHP systems would yield the following benefits every year:
• Cut more than 270 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions (a 45.3% reduction) from existing U.S. single-family homes;
• Save more than $50 billion in energy (a 48.2% savings); and
• Reduce 216 gigawatts in summer peak electrical demand (a 56.1% reduction).
Wow!