How to Make Hot Water With a Geothermal System Many know that geothermal systems can make hot water but no one seems to understand how it works. Very simply – geothermal systems have a compressor. Whenever the compressor is operating, there is waste heat produced in the refrigeration cycle. That waste heat can be used [...]
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Leominster, Massachusetts Geothermal Case Study with 2012 Operating Data Hard to believe it’s been a whole year since we fired up the geothermal system in Leominster! You can read about the installation here. Right after Christmas in 2011, we installed a TED energy meter to monitor the geothermal electricity use. We monitored the compressor circuit [...]
Calculate Payback Time for a Geothermal System in Massachusetts The first thing they teach us in ‘geothermal sales school’ is to never talk about payback time and to always talk about return on investment (ROI). The problem is that everyone understands payback time and that number is more tangible than a percentage value. In this [...]
How to Pay for a Geothermal Heating & Cooling System There are basically three ways to pay for a geothermal system in Massachusetts: 1) Pay cash and purchase the system outright. 2) Take out a low interest and/or no interest loan. 3) Lease the ground loop for 0% down. 1) Pay cash. This is [...]
09/20/2012
You too can save thousands with geothermal. Here’s how. Although the cost of a geothermal system usually comes as a shock to many Massachusetts homeowners, these systems pay for themselves within the equipment lifetime – sometimes multiple times. Here’s the math: Suppose your Massachusetts home consumes 1,000 gallons of oil per year to heat your [...]
The new owners of this home in Dover, MA wanted major renovations completed before they moved in. A 5-week construction time widow was given to the general contractor which included gutting several areas of the house. The renovation included the complete removal of the oil fueled hot water baseboard heating system and the installation of [...]
In my travels, whenever anyone asks me what I do, I usually say, “I install geothermal heating and cooling systems”. Many times the person I’m speaking to then says, “Oh, I don’t have enough space for that”. Geothermal installations in Massachusetts do not require large swaths of land! I have only encountered 4 or 5 [...]
How much does a geothermal system cost in Massachusetts? It depends. We’re not trying to avoid the answering the question – we just can’t give you an answer. We compiled our residential proposals for the past year and made this graph showing the cost of an installed geothermal system compared to square footage. You will [...]
Rich and Alisa moved into their new home in Winchester, MA with the understanding that the existing heating and cooling system needed to be replaced. With no gas service on the street, they decided that neither oil nor propane were great choices. Alisa contacted EnergySmart early in February. Within 10 days we visited the home [...]
When Jomol and her husband Saiju decided to build their dream home in Lexington, MA, fossil fuel heating was out of the question. They contacted several geothermal contractors before deciding on EnergySmart Alternatives, located only a few miles away. We met with their builder in July 2011 do discuss the components of a geothermal heating [...]