Wall Street Journal
Summary
Climate-friendly heating and cooling systems are drawing support from states, utilities, and developers.
All the houses in Whisper Valley have solar panels, heat pumps - and a geothermal borehole around 350 feel below ground, connected to a community-wide geothermal grid.
Thermal networks are sprinkled throughout the U.S., including on some college campuses. Now fueled in part by federal and state incentives encouraging the expansion of low-carbon energy, gas utilities are starting to explore the feasibility of replacing some of their natural gas infrastructure with thermal energy networks.
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