Boston Globe
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In a nondescript parking lot a long way from home, a cohort of Ukrainian officials huddled inside a shed beside a local public school building. They had come to study a novel innovation: the United States’ first geothermal heating network installed by a gas utility company.
Even as war rages in their home country, the group spoke boldly of victory, and all that would have to follow. And so the delegation traveled 4,500 miles to Greater Boston this week to research what role renewable energy could play in transforming their bomb-shattered cities into energy-resilient ones.
Geothermal energy, which relies on the steady temperature below ground to heat and cool buildings, is a decades-old technology. The Ukrainian delegation chose to visit Framingham specifically to learn how developers, public officials, and climate activists teamed up with utility company Eversource to devise a plan to link multiple buildings to the same thermal network — and persuade a gas company to build the infrastructure for a renewable energy source.
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