Geothermal Heat Pumps for Building Decarbonization – A Gridworks Happy Hour
Greetings Friends,
You're invited to the next Gridworks Happy Hour!
On Thursday Jan 23rd, we will be hosting a Happy Hour and community discussion about Geothermal Heat Pumps and their expanding role in the building decarbonizing. This informal opportunity to consider new approaches for CO2 reductions in the building energy sector will be held on:
- Date: Thursday January 23, 2020
- Time: 4:30 – 6:00 pm
The speaker/facilitator is Kevin Kitz, a member of the Board of Directors of the Geothermal Resources Council in Davis, and a 35 year professional in the geothermal industry. The goal of the session will be to exchange ideas on achieving the mass deployment of Geothermal Heat Pumps (“GHP” aka, passive geothermal energy).
There will be both a presentation of ideas and the community discussion. Topics will include:
- Economy of Scale as the key barrier to GHP deployment
- Hybrid systems of Air Source Heat Pumps and GHPs as a way to reduce capital cost and time shift grid loads in both heating and cooling
- Rate-base of geothermal ground loops for commercial and/or residential systems
- Ideas on how to evaluate GHP in a utility model.
We look forward to seeing you there, and to starting a conversation that can lead to new inspiration and further evaluation of policies, opportunities, and projects.
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