The ground beneath Massachusetts is key to a relatively new strategy to decarbonize the state’s building stock within the next decade. Deep beneath Framingham, Lowell, and Boston, pipes will exchange heat between homes and commercial buildings with the rock below, creating geothermal heating and cooling systems aimed at saving residents money while phasing out dependence on nonrenewable energy.
A first association with geothermal power is usually visible hot springs or geysers that bubble along the borders of tectonic plates. US states like California and Nevada – as well as almost 30 countries around the world – augment their clean energy resources through geothermal power plants, which use heat from rocks deep below the ground to flash water into steam at the surface and drive turbines.
But geothermal heating and cooling systems are still a rarity, with Massachusetts utilities exploring new ways to decarbonize the systems through systems of pipes and deep wells that exchange heat.
Enteq Technologies plc (LON:NTQ) develops and supplies equipment for Measurement, Logging and Geo-steering while drilling of wells for the Geothermal, Oil and Gas markets.
