Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forget the days of separate furnaces and AC units hogging space and energy. Geothermal heating and cooling systems are ...

New England’s largest energy utility, Eversource, is on its way to becoming the first gas utility in the country to build and run a “networked geothermal system.” The pilot project, which broke ground ...

Homeowners looking for an energy-efficient alternative to traditional air conditioners in the spring and summer months (and furnaces in the winter) might want to invest in a heat pump. It's a type of ...

IRVING, TX — The Plastics Pipe Institute’s Building & Construction Division has published a major revision of PPI TN-55 Plastic Piping Materials for Ground Source Geothermal Heating and Cooling ...

If you dig down about five feet or so in the ground to below the frost level, you will find the ground temperature to be amazingly constant, 40 degrees to 70 degrees F (4-21 degrees C), depending on ...

With global warming becoming an urgent issue, heating our homes efficiently -- and sustainably -- has taken center stage. As winters become more unpredictable (and unexpectedly harsh), finding ...

Tufts administrators are evaluating a potential overhaul of the university’s heating and cooling systems as part of a broader plan to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The proposal under ...

The PV-powered geothermal heat pump system was tested for a year, with measurements taken by Researchers at the University of Nottingham. The UK group showed it was able to maintain an indoor ...

If you aren’t familiar with heat pumps, there’s no time like the present to change that. California has announced it will begin phasing out gas furnaces in 2023, and because heat pumps use 50 percent ...

Having already developed dozens of projects for other companies with an eye on sustainable development, Opus Northwest is going green in its own back yard with an expansion of its headquarters in ...

WORCESTER — Before the foundation is poured for its new, nine-story biomedical research and education facility at the UMass Chan Medical School, work has begun on a geothermal heating and cooling ...