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Study to see whether East Arlington could benefit from this technology
Rooftop solar panels have become an unremarkable sight in Arlington, along with electric vehicles and air-source heat pumps. For those with both the resources and the motivation to move away from burning fossil fuels, electrifying homes and vehicles chips away at greenhouse-gas emissions, the biggest driver of climate change.
But networked geothermal energy for both heating and cooling—supplying an entire neighborhood with climate control delivered through a system of underground pipes connected to ground-source heat pumps—represents a further frontier in the clean-energy effort.
With a $50,000 grant from HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team) through its Kickstart Massachusetts program, officials with the Town of Arlington now are beginning the process to evaluate whether such a system could make sense to install eventually in the East Arlington neighborhood that includes both Thompson School, the local public K-5 campus, and Menotomy Manor, run by the Arlington Housing Authority for low-income families with children. This feasibility study could be complete by year's end.
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