Yes, indeed, it’s a big step to endorse the installation of a geothermal heating and cooling system for your home. But it is a step up. And plenty of Alaska homeowners will tell you so – particularly those who engaged Energy Efficiency Associates for their geothermal system installation. If you’re still mulling your options over, not quite primed to move forward, chew on these essential geothermal facts:
- Current geothermal technology is a proven technology that’s been researched and refined over the course of 50 years or so.
- As it happens, there are well over one million commercial and residential geothermal heating and cooling installations here in the United States alone.
- The public’s trust in geothermal heating and cooling is high, with owners ranking the comfort, convenience, and energy savings their geothermal systems afford higher than that of any other system they’ve owned.
- A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study reveals that geothermal systems have the lowest life-cycle costs of any other heating and cooling system being sold today.
- Maintenance costs are remarkably lower with geothermal than with conventional central HVAC systems mainly because geothermal systems have relatively few moving mechanisms and require relatively little maintenance in the first place.
- Geothermal heating and cooling systems typically will keep performing admirably for a solid 30 to 50 years, whereas standard HVAC systems generally must be repaired or replaced after 15 years.
- Comparing the cost of local utilities and fossil fuel to the cost of operating a geothermal heating and cooling system reveals that Alaska owners of geothermal systems frequently see their energy bills cut by amounts ranging anywhere from 30 to 70 percent!
- Geothermal heating and cooling systems are much less of an environmental threat than any fossil fuel system, giving rise, by comparison, to about one pound less of CO2 for each hour of use.
If these fast facts have made a geothermal heating and cooling system look more tempting to you, see Energy Efficiency Associates, the Alaska geothermal pros, today. There’s so much more we can tell you to set your mind at ease. And when you’re ready to go, we have just the geothermal heating and cooling system that suits your home.