Geothermal Solutions

Greening The House, offers optimum geothermal design and installation solutions for commercial, residential, private, and government buildings. Greening The House utilizes a state-of-the-art installation process and an exclusive non-shrinking grout to optimize performance, reduce project costs, and provide energy cost certainty. Greening The House is one of the largest geothermal contractors serving PA, NY, NJ and MD.

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Our geothermal consultants will help you design a cost effective solution to meet your current and future needs. We will also help you get qualified and aware of all Federal and State Energy Programs that will help pay the up front costs of your move to the " Greening the House Solution"

What is Geothermal or Geoexchange?

Geothermal or Geoexchange is a renewable, green technology that harnesses solar energy stored within the Earth. It is comprised of three main components: an earth connection, a heat pump, and a distribution system.

Geothermal Earth Connection:

The geothermal earth connection is a series of closed-loop, polyethylene pipes, commonly referred to as the earth coil or loop field, installed vertically or horizontally within a practical geoexchange zone, typically 5’ to 500’ below the earth’s surface.

The earth’s outer lithosphere acts like a large solar blanket wherein the sun’s radiation is absorbed and stored as heat. Depending on your geographical location, topography and geology, this energy is stored in the earth's crust at a constant temperature of 58 °F.

Geothermal Heat Pump

The geothermal heat pump is a high efficiency heat exchanger, whereby heat is transferred to and from the earth coil water as it circulates around a refrigerant coil. During the heating cycle or winter months, heat from the warmer water in the earth coil is transferred to the refrigerant coil increasing the temperature of the refrigerant and reducing the amount of energy needed to produce the desired air temperature. This process is reversed in the cooling cycle or during the summer, where heat from warmer air is transferred to the refrigerant coil then transferred to the water before circulating back to the ground.

Unlike conventional technologies that heat and cool ambient air to a desired room temperature, a geoexchange system relies on a relatively constant soil temperature, and because it operates on a much smaller temperature differential or DT, typically 10 °F, it uses 20 - 50% less energy than conventional systems.

Geothermal Distribution System

The geothermal distribution system basically pumps water or an environmentally safe antifreeze solution from the earth coil to a single heat pump or a series of heat pumps. This system can be centralized with an internal building loop or de-centralized with dedicated earth coils to dedicated heat pumps.
Larger projects with diverse loading can benefit from a centralized system design, whereas retrofits and smaller buildings can benefit by installing dedicated units. In either case, quality air conditioning and heating can be realized in any season.