Geothermal Systems
Imagine a heating and cooling system for your home or business that would keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter, cut your utility bills by 50 to 75 percent, and help save the environment, all at the same time.
This advanced heating and cooling system is available to you. It’s called geothermal and homeowners nationwide are reaping the benefits. Homeowners enjoy lower utility bills (50% to 75% lower than with conventional systems), lower maintenance, and higher levels of year round comfort while knowing they’re helping to protect the environment. In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy have both recognized geothermal technology as the most energy efficient, cost effective and environmentally friendly heating and cooling system available today.
Since a geothermal system burns no fossil fuel to produce heat, it generates far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than a conventional furnace, and completely eliminates a potential source of poisonous carbon monoxide within your home or business.
So how does this advanced system work? Geothermal (sometimes called geoexchange, or ground-source heat pump) taps the renewable, safe, and virtually endless energy supply that lies just below the earth’s surface.
In the winter, warmth is drawn from the earth through a series of pipes (loops) installed beneath the ground. A water solution circulating through this piping loop carries the earth’s natural warmth to a heat pump inside the home.
In the summer, the process is reversed; heat is extracted from air inside the house and transferred to the ground by way of the ground loop piping. The geothermal system also uses some of the heat extracted from the interior in the summer to provide free hot water, saving as much as 50% on your annual water heating bill.
A typical 2,000-square-foot home can be heated and cooled for a year-round average of just $1 a day.
Linn County REC has incentives of $350 per ton for units up to 20 tons of capacity on initial installations. Please contact us for incentives on larger units. Average incentives for 2000 square foot homes range from $1750-$2100.
Learn more about geothermal systems:
Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative | PO Box 69 | 5695 REC Drive | Marion, IA 52302-0069 | 319.377.1587 or 800.332.5420
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