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In order for more people to benefit from Ground Source Energy, more people need to know about it and understand how it works. On this site, you can learn useful facts concerning Ground Source Energy or you can learn about Ground Source Energy to quickly grasp how it works.

 

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Secondary School Learning

Recognising that today's kids are tomorrow's energy users, with important decisions to make about energy usage and conservation, we have compiled a school presentation with associated quizzes. If you already have a user name and password you can logon now.

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  • A Ground Source Energy pump produces very little noise.
  • Ground Source Energy is the most energy efficient, environmentally clean, and cost-effective space conditioning system available, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.
  • EPA found that, even on a source fuel basis – accounting for ALL losses in the fuel cycle including electricity generation at power plants – Ground Source Energy systems are much more efficient than competing fuel technologies. They are an average of 48% more efficient than the best gas furnaces on a source fuel basis, and over 75% more efficient than oil furnaces. In fact, today’s best Ground Source Energy systems outperform the best gas technology, gas heat pumps, by an average of 36% in heating mode and 43% in cooling mode!
  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified geothermal heat pumps as a technology that significantly reduces greenhouse gas and other air emissions associated with heating, cooling and water heating residential buildings, while saving consumers money, compared to conventional technologies. For every 100,000 units of typically sized residential geothermal heat pumps installed, more than 37.5 trillion Btu’s of energy used for space conditioning and water heating can be saved, corresponding to an emissions reduction of about 2.18 million metric tons of carbon equivalents, and cost savings to consumers of about £400 ($1.90:£1.00) million over the 20-year-life of the equipment.