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A Little-Known Clean Energy Solution Could Soon Reach ‘Liftoff’

By District Energy posted 16 days ago

  

Inside Climate News

Summary

The future is bright for a little known yet highly efficient method of heating and cooling, a new report by the U.S. Department of Energy concludes.  

Ground source heat pumps could heat and cool the equivalent of 7 million homes by 2035—up from just over 1 million today, according to the report

“They essentially offer this cost-effective solution for heating and cooling, and the reason that matters is because a significant portion of U.S. energy consumption, of global energy consumption, goes towards space heating and cooling,” said Lauren Boyd, head of the Energy Department’s Geothermal Technologies Office.

The report, released last week, is among the Liftoff Reports the agency has published since 2022 as part of a larger effort under the Biden administration to accelerate the deployment of clean energy technologies to the point where they achieve “liftoff” or widespread commercialization. Prior reports have focused on advanced nuclear, clean hydrogen and offshore wind energy, among others.

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