Geothermal Heating And Cooling Helps You Go Green
In the average household in the United States, where home heating and cooling accounts for almost 50 percent of monthly energy expenditures, geothermal heating and cooling could be an option. Homeowners who want to go green and do their part to conserve natural resources and help the environment have a credible alternative in geothermal heating and cooling.
Geothermal systems provide benefits that traditional sources of home comfort cannot match:
- Geothermal systems use less electricity and generate more heat. Overall, a geothermal system will use 25 to 50 percent less electricity than more common sources of heating and cooling. As a heating source, geothermal systems can produce three units of heat for every unit of electricity expended to acquire that heat, which is a 3-to-1 ratio of heat return. Since they use less electricity, geothermal systems also reduce overall energy demand from local utility companies.
- Geothermal systems are efficient. Because geothermal systems use much less energy to cool and heat your home, they can be as much as 50 percent more efficient than even high-efficiency HVAC equipment. They reduce energy consumption and emissions by more than 40 percent over air-source heat pumps and more than 70 percent over electric resistance heat sources.
- Geothermal systems are clean. Geothermal systems use existing ground or water sources to acquire and disperse heat, so they do not produce any greenhouse gases or other pollutants like fuel-burning sources of heat. Carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and other substances are not generated, so the overall environmental effect of a geothermal system is minimal. Even better, since no more greenhouse gases are produced, the environment has a better chance of healing itself and recovering from existing sources of pollution.
Symbiont Service Corp. serves HVAC customers along the Suncoast with professional installation and maintenance of geothermal air conditioning and pool and spa heating equipment. Contact us today for more information on the environmental benefits of geothermal heating and cooling and how a geothermal system will help you save energy and money while also benefiting the environment.
Our goal is to help educate our customers in Englewood, Florida and surrounding areas about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems). For more information about geothermal and other HVAC topics, download our free Home Comfort Resource guide.
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