Geo Thermal Heating

Ground Source Heat Pumps (Geothermal)

A Ground Source Heat Pump can greatly reduce your energy costs by exchanging heat with the huge renewable source that lies beneath your feet. Provides your heating, cooling and domestic hot water needs with a renewable, green, eco-friendly energy source found in your backyard.  Read a cost analysis of a residential Geothermal heating and cooling system to discover the incredible savings possible through this extremely efficient and environmentally friendly solution.

Benefits of Geothermal Heat Pump Systems (GSHP’S)

The biggest benefit of GSHPs is that they use 25%–50% less electricity than conventional heating or cooling systems. This translates into a GSHP using one unit of electricity to move three units of heat from the earth. According to the EPA, geothermal heat pumps can reduce energy consumption—and corresponding emissions—up to 44% compared to air-source heat pumps and up to 72% compared to electric resistance heating with standard air-conditioning equipment. GSHPs also improve humidity control by maintaining about 50% relative indoor humidity.

Geothermal heat pump systems allow for design flexibility and can be installed in both new and retrofit situations. Because the hardware requires less space than that needed by conventional HVAC systems, the equipment rooms can be greatly scaled down in size, freeing space for productive use. GSHP systems also provide excellent "zone" space conditioning, allowing different parts of your home to be heated or cooled to different temperatures.

Because GSHP systems have relatively few moving parts, and because those parts are sheltered inside a building, they are durable and highly reliable. The underground piping often carries warranties of 25–50 years, and the heat pumps often last 20 years or more. Since they usually have no outdoor compressors, GSHPs are not susceptible to vandalism. On the other hand, the components in the living space are easily accessible, which increases the convenience factor and helps ensure that the upkeep is done on a timely basis.

Because they have no outside condensing units like air conditioners, there's no concern about noise outside the home. A two-speed GSHP system is so quiet inside a house that users do not know it is operating: there are no tell-tale blasts of cold or hot air.

Atel Air has been installing GSHP’S since the early 1980’s, several of these units are still working to-day.